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Patriotism — Protection — Prosperity 



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44 You do not have to guess what the Republican Party will do. 
The world knows its purposes. It has embodied them in law 
and executed them in administration "— WILLIAM McKINLEY 


PRESS OF JOHN R. MC FETRIDGE & SONS, PHILA. 


























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CAMPAIGN TEXT BOOK 

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PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY 

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REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE 

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PENNSYLVANIA 


HENRY F. WALTON W. HARRY BAKER 

Chairman Secretary 


REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS 

329 SOUTH BROAD STREET 

PHILADELPHIA 


PRESS OF JOHN R. McFETRIDGE & SONS, PHILA. 









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EDITOR’S NOTE. 


These pages form the text book of the Republican Party 
in Pennsylvania for the campaign Qf 1910. It is issued by 
direction of the Republican State Committee and is for refer¬ 
ence by speakers and writers. The statements herewith 
made are believed to be entirely reliable; the data is official. 
The Republican Party seeks no other argument than that pre¬ 
sented by its record of progress and achievement, of fidelity to 
its pledges. 

The discordant opponents of the Republican Party in Penn¬ 
sylvania have not published a campaign text book. They are 
without a record that will bear emphasis; they are without 
an issue that will be considered by the thinking citizenship 
of this Commonwealth. 


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WILLIAM H. TAFT 


PRESIDENT TAFT’S LETTER 


Beverly, Mass., August 20, 1910. 

My Dear Mr. McKinley: 

As the chairman of the National Congressional Republican 
Committee, you have asked me to give the reasons which should 
lead voters in the coming November election to cast their ballots 
for Republican candidates for Congress. 

I assume that when this letter is given publicity the lines will 
be drawn, the party candidates will have been selected, and the 
question for decision will be whether we shall have in the House 
of Representatives a Republican or a Democratic majority. The 
question then will be not what complexion of Republicanism one 
prefers, but whether it is better for the country to have the Re¬ 
publican party control the legislation for the next two years and 
* further redeem its promises, or to enable a Democratic majority 
in the House either to interpose a veto to Republican measures, 
or to formulate and pass bills to carry out Democratic principles. 
Prominence has been given during the preliminary canvasses just 
ended to the differences between Republicans; but in the election 
such differences should be forgotten. Differences within the party 
were manifested in the two sessions of the present Congress, and 
yet never in its history has the Republican party passed and be¬ 
come responsible for as much useful and progressive legislation. 
So, while issues will doubtless arise between members of a Repub¬ 
lican majority as to the details of further legislation, the party, 
as a whole, will show itself in the future, as in the past, practical 
and patriotic in subordinating individual opinions in order to 
secure real progress. Hence it is important that after Republican 
Congressional candidates have been duly and fairly chosen, all 
Republicans who believe in the party principles as declared in its 
national platform of 1908 should give the candidates loyal and 
effective support. If this is done, there will be no doubt of a 
return of a Republican majority. 

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DEMOCRATIC REPUDIATION. 

The only other alternative is a Democratic majority. It is 
difficult, very difficult, to state all the principles that would govern 
< such a majority in its legislative course; and this because its 
party platforms have presented a variety of planks not altogether 
consistent, and because in the present Congress, leading Demo¬ 
crats in the Senate and the House have not hesitated to repudiate 
certain of their party pledges and to deny their binding character. 
We may reasonably assume, however, that a Democratic majority 
in the House would reject the Republican doctrine of protection 
as announced in 1908. 

What, therefore, has a Republican who believes in protec¬ 
tion but objects to some rates or schedules in the present tariff 
act to hope for from a Democratic majority, which, if allowed 
its way, would attack the protective system and halt business 
by a threatened revision of the whole tariff on revenue basis, or 
if prevented by the Senate or the Executive would merely do 
nothing. 

Such a legislative program as that set forth in the Republican 
national platform of 1908 could not be carried out in full by one 
Congress. Certainly if all its promises are executed in one admin¬ 
istration, it will be within a proper time. The present Congress 
has not only fulfilled many party pledges, but it has by its course 
set higher the standard of party responsibility for such pledges 
than ever before in the history of American parties. Hereafter 
those who would catch voters by declarations in favor of alluring 
remedial legislation will not make them except with much more 
care as to the possibility of its enactment. In view of the history 
of the present Congress, the return of a Republican majority in 
the next Congress may well inspire confidence that the pledges 
still unredeemed will be met and satisfied. 

THE TARIFF. 

Let us consider, summarily, the promises made and the legis¬ 
lation enacted by the present Congress: First and of primary 
importance was the promise to revise the tariff in accordance 
with the rule laid down in the platform, to wit: that the tariff on 
articles imported should be equal to the difference between their 
cost of production abroad and that cost in this country, including 
a reasonable profit for the domestic manufacturer. A very full 





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investigation—full, at least, as such investigations have been con¬ 
ducted in the past—was made by the Ways and Means Commit¬ 
tee of the House to determine what rates should be changed to 
conform to this rule. A reduction was made in six hundred and 
fifty-four numbers, and an increase in some two hundred and 
twenty, while eleven hundred and fifty remained unchanged. The 
bill was amended in the Senate, but the proportion of increases 
to decreases was maintained. When I signed the bill, I accom¬ 
panied my approval with the following memorandum: 

“I have signed the Payne tariff bill because I believe 
it to be the result of a sincere effort on the part of the Re¬ 
publican party to make a downward revision, and to comply 
with the promises of the platform as they have been generally 
understood, and as I interpreted them in the campaign before 
election. 

“The bill is not a perfect tariff bill, or a complete com¬ 
pliance with the promises made strictly interpreted, but a 
fulfilment free from criticism in respect to a subject matter 
involving many schedules and thousands of articles could not 
be expected. It suffices to say that except with regard to 
whisky, liquors and wines, and in regard to silks and as to 
.some high classes of cottons—all of which may be treated as 
luxuries and proper subjects of a revenue tariff—there have 
been very few increases in rates. There have been a great 
number of real decreases in rates, and they constitute a suffi¬ 
cient amount to justify the statement that this bill is a sub¬ 
stantial downward revision, and a reduction of excessive 
rates. This is not a free-trade bill. It was not intended to be. 
The Republican party did not promise to make a free-trade 
bill. It promised to make the rates protective, but to reduce 
them when they exceeded the difference between the cost of 
production abroad and here, making allowance for the 
greater normal profit on active investments here. I believe 
that while this excess has not been reduced in a number of 
cases, in a great majority the rates are such as are necessary 
to protect American industries, but are low enough, in case 
of abnormal increase of demand and raising of prices, to 
permit the possibility of the importation of the foreign article 
and thus to prevent excessive prices. 


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“The power granted to the Executive under the maxi¬ 
mum and minimum clause may be exercised to secure the 
removal of obstacles which have been interposed by foreign 
governments in the way of undue and unfair discrimination 
against American merchandise and products. 

“The Philippine tariff section I have struggled to secure 
for ten years last past, and it gratifies me exceedingly by my 
signature to give it the effect of law. I am sure it will greatly 
increase the trade between the two countries, and it will do 
much to build up the Philippines in a healthful prosperity. 

“The administrative clauses of tire bill and the Customs 
Court are admirably adapted to secure a more uniform and 
a more speedy final construction of the meaning of the law. 

“The authority of the President to use agents to assist 
him in the application of the maximum and minimum section 
of the statute, and to enable officials to administer the law, 
gives a wide latitude for the acquisition, under circumstances 
favorable to its truth, of information in respect to the price 
and cost of production of goods at home and abroad, which 
will throw much light on the operation of the present tariff 
and be of primary importance as officially collected data upon 
which future Executive action and Executive recommenda¬ 
tions may be based. 

“The corporation tax is a just and equitable excise 
measure, which it is hoped will produce a sufficient amount 
to prevent a deficit and which incidentally will secure valuable 
statistics and information concerning the many corporations 
of the country, and will constitute an important step toward 
that degree of publicity and regulation which the tendency 
in corporate enterprises in the last twenty years has shown 
to be necessary.” 

This fairly states the effect of the bill. The bill has been 
criticised for certain of its rates and schedules. Some of the 
criticisms are just and some are wide of the mark and most 
unjust. 

The truth is that under the old protective idea the only pur¬ 
pose was to make the tariff high enough to protect the home in¬ 
dustry. The excess of the tariff over the differences in the cost of 
production here and abroad was not regarded as objectionable, 





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because it was supposed that competition between those who 
enjoyed the high protection would keep the price for the consumer 
down to what was reasonable for the manufacturers. The evil of 
excessive tariff rates, however, showed itself in the temptation of 
manufacturers to combine and suppress competition, and then to 
maintain the prices so as to take advantage of the excess of the 
tariff rate over the difference between the cost of production 
abroad and here. 

The Payne tariff bill is the first bill passed by the Republican 
party in which the necessity for reducing rates to avoid this evil 
has been recognized, and it is therefore a decided step in the right 
direction and it ought to be accepted as such. On the whole, it 
was a downward revision, particularly on articles of necessity 
and on raw materials. The actual figures on the first year’s 
operation of the law demonstrate this. It must also be remem¬ 
bered that the tariff rates in the new law on imported liquors, 
wines and silks were increased substantiall) over the Dingley 
rates, because these were luxuries and it was intended to increase 
the revenue. 

The charge that the present tariff is responsible for the in¬ 
crease in the prices of necessities is demonstrably false, because 
the high prices, with very few exceptions, affect articles in the 
tariff upon which there was no increase in rates or in respect to 
which there was a substantial reduction. 

TARIFF BOARD. 

Perhaps more important than any one feature of the oper¬ 
ative part of the tariff law is that section which enables the 
Executive to appoint a tariff commission or board to secure the 
needed information for the proper amendment and perfection of 
the law. The difficulty in fixing the proper tariff rates in accord 
with the principle stated in the Republican platform is in securing 
reliable evidence as to the difference between the cost of produc¬ 
tion at home and the cost of production abroad. The bias of the 
manufacturer seeking protection and of the importer opposing 
it weakens the weight of their testimony. Moreover, when we 
understand that the cost of production differs in one country 
abroad from that in another, and that it changes from year to year 
and from month to month, we must realize that the precise differ¬ 
ence in cost of production sought for is not capable of definite 


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ascertainment, and that all that even the most scientific person 
can do in his investigation is, after consideration of many facts 
which he learns, to exercise his best judgment in reaching a con¬ 
clusion. 

The Commission, however, already selected and at work, is 
a commission of disinterested persons who will ascertain the 
facts, not in a formal hearing by examination and cross-examina¬ 
tion of witnesses, but by the kind of investigation that statisti¬ 
cians and scientific investigators use. When the Commission 
completes its work, either on the entire tariff or on any of the 
schedules in respect to which issue has arisen, and the work of 
the Commission shows that the present tariff is wrong and should 
be changed, I expect to bring the matter to the attention of the 
Congress with a view to its amendment of the tariff in that par¬ 
ticular. Of course, this will be impracticable unless Congress 
itself shall adopt the parliamentary rule, as I hope it will, that a 
bill to amend one schedule of the tariff may not be subject to 
a motion to amend by adding changes in other schedules. 

It will thus be possible to take up a single schedule with 
respect to which it is probable that a great majority of each 
House will be unprejudiced, to submit the evidence, and to reach 
a fair conclusion, and this method will tend to avoid disturbing 
business conditions. For these reasons if seems to me that all 
Republicans—conservative, progressive and radical—may well 
abide the situation with respect to the tariff until evidence now 
being accumulated shall justify changes in the rates; and that it 
is much better for them to vote for Republicans than to help 
create a Democratic majority which would be utterly at war 
with the protective principle, and therefore would have no use 
for the findings of the Tariff Commission, as we may certainly 
infer from the solid Democratic vote in the present Congress 
against the necessary appropriation for the Commission’s work. 

RESULTS OF PAYNE LAW. 

One great virtue in the new tariff law, including the corpo¬ 
ration tax, is that, taken with the earnest effort of the adminis¬ 
tration to keep down or reduce governmental expenditures and to 
reform the methods of collecting the customs revenue, it has, 
by its revenue-producing capacity, tufned a deficit in the ordinary 
operations of the Government of $58,000,000 for the year ending 



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June 30, 1909, to a surplus in the first full year of the law, ending 
August 5, 1910, of $26,000,000. From a revenue standpoint, 
then, there can be no controversy over the effectiveness of the 
new law. Increased revenue indicates increased imports, and an 
examination of our imports during the past year will disclose a 
most substantial increase in manufacturers’ material, from which 
in the making of finished products, whether for exportation or 
home consumption, has come a larger volume of employment for 
our wage-earners, a larger purchasing power and a greater con¬ 
sumption of the products of our farms and fabrications of our 
factories. So far, then, as such importations do not displace 
home production, they must be of benefit to all. Generally speak¬ 
ing, a full measure of industrial activity in production, transpor¬ 
tation and distribution has accompanied the operation of the new 
law. Under the maximum and minimum provisions we have 
concluded treaties with all foreign nations, gaining the best pos¬ 
sible terms for entrance to their markets without sacrificing our 
own. By the Payne tariff law we have at last done justice to 
the Philippines by allowing the producers of those islands the 
benefit of our markets with such limitations as to prevent injury 
to our home industries. 

Again, the present law in its corporation tax imposes a new 
kind of tax which has many of the merits of an income tax. It 
taxes success, not failure. Unlike a personal income tax, it is 
easily and exactly collected, and by an increase or decrease in 
the rate enables Congress with exactness to regulate its income 
to its necessary expenditures. More than this, it furnishes an 
indirect but effective method of keeping the Government advised 
as to the kind of business done by all corporations. It is one of 
the most useful and important changes in our revenue laws, as 
the future will show. In spite of the criticisms heaped upon it 
at its passage, no party responsible for revenues or anxious to 
retain every means of legitimate supervision of corporations will 
repeal it. 

INTERSTATE COMMERCE. 

The next most important work of the present Congress was 
the passage of the amendment to the interstate commerce bill. 
The Republican platform favored amendment to the interstate 
commerce act with a view to giving greater power to the Inter- 


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state Commerce Commission in regulating the operation of rail¬ 
roads and the fixing of traffic rates, and also favored such national 
legislation and supervision as would prevent the future over-issue 
of stocks and bonds by interstate carriers. After the adjourn¬ 
ment of the Congress at its extra session, I invited two of my 
Cabinet and a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission 
and a member of Congress, to make recommendations as to the 
needed amendments to the interstate commerce act. These 
gentlemen reported to me, and in September last, in a speech in 
Des Moines, I foreshadowed their recommendations as I intended 
to make them to the Congress for the amendment of the inter¬ 
state commerce act: 

First, by the establishment of a commerce court; second, by 
empowering the Commission to classify merchandise as well as 
to fix rates for classes; third, by giving the right to a shipper to 
designate the route by which his goods shall be transported beyond 
the line of the initial carrier; fourth, by empowering the Com¬ 
mission to consider the justice or injustice of any rate without 
the complaint or initiation of a shipper; fifth, by empowering 
the Commission to suspend proposed increases of rates by car¬ 
riers until the Commission shall have a chance to pass upon the 
reasonableness of the increase; sixth, by provisions for the Fed¬ 
eral regulation of the issue of stocks and bonds by interstate 
railways; seventh, by a clause forbidding an interstate commerce 
railway company from acquiring stock in a competing road; 
eighth, by a section permitting the making of traffic agreements 
between competing railroads limited in point of time and subject 
matter, and subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce 
Commission. 

These amendments were in accordance with the text of the 
Republican platform. Subsequently, bills were drawn embodying 
this recommended legislation, in which, while the principle was 
maintained, there were limitations introduced, as justice sug¬ 
gested, after a conference with all the parties interested. The 
bill was submitted to the Congress, and after a great deal of dis¬ 
cussion, both in the House and the Senate, it was enacted into 
law, with many amendments which did not materially change the 
eft'ect of the recommendations except to strike out certain pro¬ 
visions promised in the Republican platform, to permit traffic 
agreements between railways in spite of the anti-trust law, to 





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forbid one railway company to acquire stock in a competing com¬ 
pany, and to secure supervision by the Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission of the issue of stocks and bonds by interstate railways. 

For this last, was substituted a provision authorizing the 
appointment of a commission to consider the evils arising from 
the over-issue of stocks and bonds, and the methods of preventing 
such evils by Congressional regulation. In addition to the pur¬ 
poses already recited accomplished by the bill, the so-called long 
and short haul clause of the existing law—the one forbidding the 
charging of a greater rate for a less distance included in the 
greater distance, than for the greater distance—was amended so 
as to vest in the Commission somewhat wider discretion in en¬ 
forcing the clause than has been permitted by the Supreme Court 
decisions under existing law. Moreover, interstate telegraphs 
and telephones as instruments of commerce have been brought 
within the regulation of the Commission. The bill as at present 
in force is an excellent bill. It is not enacted in a spirit of hostility 
to railroads, but it submits them to a closer and more effective 
supervision by the Interstate Commerce Commission to avoid 
injustice in their management and control. 

The important part that railways play as the arterial cir¬ 
culation in the business of the country, the million and a half of 
their employees and the million of their stockholders, the import¬ 
ance of their purchasing power as affecting the prosperity of 
general business—all require in the public interest that no unfair 
treatment should be accorded them. But I am glad to note that 
the railway managers have acquiesced in the fairness of the 
present bill, and propose loyally to comply with its useful pro¬ 
visions. It was supported by the whole Republican party in 
Congress, and that party is entitled to credit for its passage. The 
whole Democratic strength was exhibited against it in both 
Houses. It was a performance of a pledge of the platform, and 
only needs time to vindicate the wisdom of its enactment. 

POSTAL SAVINGS BANK. 

The postal savings bank bill has a similar history. It is one 
of the great Congressional enactments. It creates an epoch. It 
institutes a system which will work effectively to promote thrift 
among the poor, by providing a depository for their savings which 
they properly may consider absolutely safe, and will also turn into 


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the channels of trade and commerce a large volume of money 
which otherwise would be hoarded. By specific provision it will 
stimulate the investment of savings in Government bonds of small 
denominations, for which the bill provides. Like the tariff bill 
and the railroad bill, this was put through each House of Congress 
by a Republican majority, and was signed by a Republican Pres¬ 
ident. 

The legislation of Congress in respect to the Navy Depart¬ 
ment is a full compliance with the promises of the Republican 
platform. In spite of a proper desire to keep down appropria¬ 
tions, Congress saw the necessity for a continuance of our present 
naval policy and a regular strengthening of the Navy by the addi¬ 
tion of two more battleships. More than this, it has enabled the 
Secretary of the Navy to carry out a reform in the business man¬ 
agement of the Department and a reorganization of the bureaus 
and staff of the Navy so as to contribute materially to its effect¬ 
iveness as one of the military arms of the Government. Although 
the Democratic national platform apparently favored the increase 
in the Navy, a large majority of the Democrats, both in the 
House and the Senate, opposed the policy when presented in the 
form of concrete legislation. 

LABOR LEGISLATION. 

The Republican party at the last session of Congress again 
exhibited its deep and sincere interest in the general welfare of 
the working men and women of the country by adding important 
enactments to its already long record of legislation on this subject. 
Practically all classes of employees, especially those engaged in 
occupations more or less hazardous, are the beneficiaries of laws 
which should operate to lighten the burdens which naturally fall 
upon the shoulders of man. The Republican party recognized the 
necessity of reducing the dangers under which hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of miners work by creating a Bureau of Mines. This bill 
was passed for the purpose of establishing an efficient govern¬ 
mental instrument for investigation, examination and report to 
the world of the kind of safety appliances that will prevent the 
awful losses of life in the operation of mines, and especially 
of coal mines. A second purpose of the bureau is to perform 
the same office in respect to the great industry of mining that 
the Department of Agriculture performs in respect to the farm- 



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ing interests of the country; that is, by experiment and investi¬ 
gation to determine the most effective methods of mining and 
the best means of avoiding the deplorable waste that now obtains 
in the present mining methods. 

No more important legislation in the interest of human life 
has ever been enacted by Congress than the laws of the recent 
session giving to the Interstate Commerce Commission ampler 
powers to define the needed safety appliances for the prevention 
of accidents to employees and passengers, and, after a hearing, 
to require their adoption by interstate railways. Other legislation, 
with respect to the inspection of locomotive boilers and the re¬ 
moval of dangerous overhead obstructions, awaits the considera¬ 
tion of the next session of this Congress, and I hope that it may 
speedily be passed. The employers’ liability act was perfected 
by needed amendment so as to enable injured employees more 
easily to recover just damages. 

But in one sense the most forward step taken in the interest 
of the worker was the creation of a Congressional Commission 
to report a practical bill for the fixing of workmen’s compensation 
for injuries received in the employment of interstate commerce 
railways, as risks in the business to be fixed by speedy arbitration 
and to be graduated according to the extent of the injury and the 
earning capacity of the injured person. This is important, not 
only as affecting interstate commerce railways, but, if adopted, 
as furnishing a model to the country for a beneficial change in 
the legal relation between employee and employer. This reform 
would put an end to the vexatious and costly litigation through 
which an injured employee must go in order to recover damages— 
litigation which on account of the poverty of the employee fre¬ 
quently serves to defeat the ends of justice, and in other instances 
leads to exorbitant and unjust verdicts. 

CONSERVATION. 

One of the great questions which has been made a national 
issue and aroused public interest through the insistence of Presi¬ 
dent Roosevelt is that of conservation of our national resources. 
From the Federal standpoint, this concerns the preservation of 
forests, the reclamation of arid lands of the Government and the 
proper treatment and disposition of our Government coal lands, 
phosphate lands, oil and gas lands, and of the lands known as 


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water-power sites at the points on the streams where the water 
power must be converted in order to be useful. During Mr. 
Roosevelt's administration millions of acres of lands included 
within the classes described were withdrawn in the United States 
proper and in Alaska, in order to await proper legislation. Doubt 
arose as to the Executive power to make these withdrawals, and 
therefore as to their legality should they be contested in court. 
The present administration continued the Executive withdrawals, 
but suggested, as a matter of wise precaution, securing from Con¬ 
gress express power to make them. By Republican majorities 
in both Houses a withdrawal bill for this purpose was enacted, 
and now over seventy millions of acres have been rewithdrawn 
of lands included within the classes described. Much of the land 
reserved as coar land is valuable for agriculture, and therefore 
Congress adopted an entirely feasible and useful plan by which 
the homestead laws were applied to the surface of the land, while 
the coal in the ground is still reserved as the property of the 
Government. This is a new departure in our land laws, and is 
highly to be commended. In addition to this, it was deemed 
necessary, in order that certain reclamation projects of the Gov¬ 
ernment should be completed within a reasonable time, that an 
issue of $20,000,000 bonds should be authorized with which to 
secure water for the settlers upon Government lands within the 
promise of the project, the bonds to be redeemed by the water 
rents for the service rendered. In this way hundreds of settlers 
who have been patiently waiting for the completion of the projects 
and suffering great privation will be rehabilitated. At the same 
time, the law authorizing the bond issue prevents the expenditure 
of any of the proceeds of the bonds in any of the projects until 
a board of army engineers shall report the same as worthy and 
feasible. Moreover, additional provision has been made in the 
appropriation laws for money with which to carry on surveys of 
unsurveyed public lands, a crying need in certain States and in 
Alaska. Thus it is not too much to say that most important steps 
have been taken toward the proper conservation of our resources 
in the legislation of the present Congress. There remains to be 
considered and settled the question of the method of disposing of 
these lands so that the Government may retain sufficient control 
to prevent a monopoly in their use and to secure the public against 
extortion for coal, oil, gas, phosphate or water power on the one 






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hand, and yet may give to private capital sufficient inducement to 
bring about a normal development of the wealth contained in 
these lands to aid in the building up of the country. Neither the 
Democrats of the House nor the Democrats of the Senate as a 
body, although their platform formally declared in favor of con¬ 
servation, have taken any active part or can be counted upon to 
assist materially in the solution of these complicated questions. 

Another subject of pressing importance is that of the im¬ 
provement of our waterways. The present Congress has en¬ 
acted a rivers and harbors bill appropriating more than $41,000,- 
000 for the carrying out of a number of well-defined plans for 
the permanent improvement of rivers and harbors within a certain 
period, and in addition authorizing contracts to be entered into, 
subject to future appropriations by Congress, aggregating over ten 
millions of dollars. The bill was subject to criticism in that it 
still continued the old piece-meal system and appropriated some¬ 
thing for nearly every project recommended by the army en¬ 
gineers. It is hoped and believed that in the next session and 
thereafter the engineers will so make their recommendations as 
to indicate the projects of greater importance, so that adequate 
sums may be appropriated for their completion within a reason¬ 
ably short time and the piece-meal policy of extending the con¬ 
struction of improvements of this kind indefinitely for years may 
be abandoned. 

OTHER PLEDGES REDEEMED. 

The Republican platform promised that it would admit to 
Statehood the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and that 
promise has been redeemed with suitable provisions for securing 
good and sane constitutions of the States by requiring their adop¬ 
tion in advance of the election of State officers, and their sub¬ 
mission to Congress for consideration, and possible rejection, at 
one of its sessions. 

All this long list of useful enactments was promised in the 
Republican platform and has been put through by Republican 
majorities. 

Congress has also enacted into law, in accordance with the 
promise which I made as a candidate for the Presidency, a bill 
requiring the publication by the Congressional committees of 
detailed statements of the money received by them and the money 


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expended by them in the political canvass of each Congressional 
candidate. 

In addition, the present Congress has appropriated $100,000 
to enable the Executive to investigate and make recommenda¬ 
tions as to the methods by which the cost of running the Govern¬ 
ment may be reduced. I regard this last as one of the most 
important parts of the administration’s policy. I am confident 
that if full opportunity is given, and a Republican Congress is 
elected to assist, the cutting down of the national expenditures 
by the adoption of modern economic methods in doing the busi¬ 
ness of the Government will reach to a point of saving many 
millions. How much the expenses can be curtailed it is impossible 
to approximate at this time. The problem before the administra¬ 
tion is to get full value for every dollar it disburses. 

The appropriations for the last year were more than $20,- 
000,000 less than the appropriations of the year before, and in 
the actual execution of the law $11,000,000 were saved in the 
operation of the Post Office Department, for which appropriation 
had already been made. 

FUTURE LEGISLATION. 

A number of other promises remain to be kept. I have al¬ 
ready alluded to the provisions to regulate the issue of stocks 
and bonds by interstate commerce railways, to which the Dem¬ 
ocratic minority in the Senate gave its solid opposition on the 
ground that the Central Government has no Constitutional power 
to make and enforce such regulation. In addition, there is the 
promised procedure to determine how preliminary injunction shall 
issue without notice, and when. In substitution for this the 
Democratic platform proposes an amendment to the existing law 
which would create a privileged class of lawless workmen and 
would seriously impair the power of the courts of equity to do 
justice. Then there is a measure to promote the merchant marine 
engaged in foreign service, to which in previous Congresses the 
Democratic party has always opposed an almost solid front. 
There is the measure forbidding the acquisition of stocks by one 
railway company in a competing line, and there are also those bills, 
already referred to, to secure further safety appliances on rail¬ 
ways and to establish a basis for workmen’s compensation. There 
is also the promise of the Republican platform to make better 
provision for securing the health of the natiotf, The most tangible 





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and useful form that this can take would be the establishment of 
a national bureau of health to include all the health agencies of 
the Government now distributed in different Departments. Fin¬ 
ally there is the Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill which passed 
the House by a- Republican majority, is on the calendar of the 
Senate, and will probably pass at the coming session of this 
Congress. 

In view of what the present Republican Congress has done 
in the fulfilment of its promises, and in view of the standard that 
it has set in respect to the sacredness of party pledges, I have no 
hesitation in urging all who are in favor of the performance of 
the remaining pledges, who are in favor of progress, in favor of 
practical conservation, in favor of economy in government, in 
favor of the just regulation of railways and of interstate com¬ 
merce corporations, in favor of a bureau of health, in favor of 
a proper limitation of the powers of equitable injunction, and 
who are in favor of measures to promote the merchant marine 
in foreign service, to vote for the Republican candidates for 
Congress in order that their wish for all this progressive legisla¬ 
tion may be gratified. 

CONCLUSION. 

In closing, it may not be inappropriate for me to invite your 
attention, and that of all those engaged in advocating the Re¬ 
publican cause in the coming election, to the fact that it is of the 
utmost importance to make this a campaign of education as to 
facts and to clear away the clouds of misrepresentation that have 
obscured the real issues and have made it difficult to secure for 
the Republican majority in Congress the real credit due them 
from the country for the tremendous task they have accomplished. 
If this is brought clearly home to all voters, and especially to the 
young men now voting for the first time, and they become im¬ 
pressed, as they ought to be by this record, with the difference 
in the governmental efficiency and capacity of the Republican and 
Democratic parties, they will enroll themselves with the party of 
construction and progress rather than with the party of obstruc¬ 
tion and negation, and the resulting legislation of the Sixty- 
second Congress will vindicate their choice. 

Sincerely yours, 

WM. H. TAFT. 

Hon. William B. McKinley, Chairman , 

Republican Congressional Committee, 

U33 Broadway, New York City. 


THE CAMPAIGN AND ITS ISSUES. 


SOUND REASONS FOR SUPPORT OF THE REPUBLI¬ 
CAN PARTY IN PENNSYLVANIA AND 
THE NATION. 


A political party must be judged by its legislative enact¬ 
ments and by its administration of public affairs. To receive 
the approval of the people it is necessary that from its ranks 
shall come legislators and executives of integrity, wisdom 
and an accurate perception of conditions which may require 
adjustment. If by its service it shall bring about a correc- 
tive of existing evils it may be fairly entitled to popular 
commendation. The record of the Republican Party pre¬ 
eminently is a record of performance. By its wise and con¬ 
structive statesmanship it has presented to the world an ex¬ 
ample of good government. Never before in its almost un¬ 
interrupted control of National affairs for more than half a 
century has that party had the confidence of the people as 
it has to-day. Through patriotic achievement it has become 
secure in its trusteeship of the nation’s interests. The people 
of the United States are a thinking people. They are alive 
to the welfare of the State. Legislation of the Republican 
Party has established prosperity in this country. It has pro¬ 
vided protection for the humblest citizen, for, as Theodore 
Roosevelt truly has said, “No man is above the law and no 
man below it.” 

REPUBLICAN TARIFF REVISION. 

The Payne tariff law is the most important legislative 
enactment of recent years. It provided sensible tariff revi¬ 
sion and it has enlarged the prosperity of the people. It 
has accomplished every purpose for which a tariff act is 
intended. It has supplied, the country with a larger revenue 
per month since its passage by Congress than any other 

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tariff law in our history. It has done this at a lower ad 
valorem rate of duty than any other tariff act. Under its 
operation the Government deficit has disappeared and in its 
place is a substantial surplus. It has furnished the labor 
of the United States adequate protection from the poorly paid 
labor of foreign countries. An overwhelming majority of 
our people indorse the statement of President William 
Howard Taft that the Payne law “is the best tariff law 
ever passed by the Republican Party.” 

The delegates at the Harrisburg convention emphasized the 
satisfaction of the people of Pennsylvania over the new tariff 
system. In an earnest platform declaration they proclaimed 
that the Keystone State still stands by the colors of the tra¬ 
ditional policy of protection. 

The enactment of the tariff law was followed at the recent 
session of Congress by further important legislation in the 
interest of the people. A Republican Congress fully sustained 
the excellent administration of President Taft. 

ADMINISTRATION OF STATE AFFAIRS. 

As in the nation, so in this State. Pennsylvania has entire 
confidence in the Republican Party. In every branch of our 
State government representatives of that party have fought 
a good fight; they have kept the faith. The administration 
of Governor Edwin S. Stuart is commended by all of the 
people. Good legislation has been enacted and a business¬ 
like management of our finances has made Pennsylvania free 
from debt. The Republican Party has given a good account 
of its stewardship. Its long and successful administration of 
State affairs is a splendid vindication of the judgment of the 
people. 

On June 22 d there assembled at Harrisburg a distinguished 
body of representative Republicans. The State convention 
of 1910 was notable for the excellence of its membership. 
The delegates who composed that body proceeded with great 
deliberation to discharge the duty delegated to them by the 
great Republican majority of this Commonwealth, the selec¬ 
tion of candidates for the office of Governor and other high 
State offices. A tremendous responsibility devolved upon 
them from the certainty that their selections would be rat- 




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ified by the people. They did their work well. The manner 
of their procedure presents an accurate index to political 
conditions in this State. The harmony that extends through¬ 
out the great Republican hosts of Pennsylvania was reflected 
by the delegates, who acted together upon every proposition 
that came before them. Each candidate was nominated with¬ 
out a dissenting vote, a condition absolutely unprecedented 
in the political history of this State. In the campaign of 
1910 the Republican Party presents candidates who are 
worthy of the support of every citizen of Pennsylvania. 
Their election will insure a continuance of good government 
in this Commonwealth. 

NATIONAL ISSUES INVOLVED. 

This campaign involves other issues of the highest import¬ 
ance to our people. The result of the elections in Pennsyl¬ 
vania this year will be of more than State significance. It 
will be of National importance. The Republican ticket should 
be elected by an unprecedented majority for unusual reasons. 
The enactment of the Payne tariff law was a vindication for 
Pennsylvania’s uncompromising Republicanism. In 1908 
no other State gave the Republican National ticket so large 
a majority. No other State sent to the Sixty-first Congress 
so many Republican Representatives. No other State was 
so conspicuous as Pennsylvania in the enactment of tariff 
revision legislation. No other delegation in Congress re¬ 
sented more effectively the intrusion of false economic theories 
as a substitute for sound Republican doctrine. From no 
other State was there a more urgent demand for the contin¬ 
uance of the protective system. Pennsylvania will be the 
principal beneficiary of the new tariff rates. They lhave 
brought prosperity to all classes of her people. The Repub¬ 
lican Party responded to the demand of the Keystone State 
for legislation that would enable it to maintain its industrial 
supremacy. Throughout this great Commonwealth is hope, 
optimism, activity. The Republican Party has established a 
reconstructed tariff system which has restored prosperity, 
which protects the wage-earner, provides for our markets 
abroad, as well as at home, and removes from business the 
blight of tariff agitation. 



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THE DUTY OF THE VOTER. 

It is the duty of every man in this State who believes in 
the protection of the labor of the country from competition 
with the miserably paid labor abroad, to record at the polls 
his approval of the work of the Republican majority in the 
Sixty-first Congress. A reduced Republican majority in 
Pennsylvania this year will bring hope and encouragement to 
those who oppose the Republican system of protection and 
advocate Democratic tariff revision. It will provide free trade 
exponents with an excuse for projecting tariff agitation with 
its distressing influences into the commercial and industrial 
organization of this country. An overwhelming majority 
for the Republican ticket will emphasize Pennsylvania’s ap¬ 
preciation of the splendid service of her Representatives in 
Congress in her behalf and proclaim to the country her un¬ 
faltering allegiance to the principles of the Republican Party. 

A VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN TICKET WILL BE 
A VOTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PENNSYL¬ 
VANIA AND THE NATION. 


























FOR GOVERNOR 


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JOHN K. TENER 





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JOHN KINLEY TENER 


The Republican Party presents as its candidate for Gov¬ 
ernor a man who possesses all of the qualities of Pennsyl¬ 
vania’s best and most representative citizenship. John Kinley 
Tener will prove a worthy successor to Edwin S. Stuart. 
In him are combined energy, ability and integrity. A prod¬ 
uct of the public schools and largely self-educated, he has 
earned for himself an honorable and successful career as a 
business man and a distinguished record in statesmanship. 
No other public man within this generation has advanced 
more rapidly in the confidence of the people than John Kinley 
Tener. His public service has been characterized by a rugged 
independence and a deep regard for the people’s welfare. 

# It has become fashionable among the muckrakers, when 
attacking an honest man who happens to be a candidate for 
office, to inform the public that he is the “candidate of the 
bosses,” and that if elected he will “take his orders.” These 
things were said of Edwin S. Stuart, and, undoubtedly a sim¬ 
ilar line of action will be followed concerning the present 
candidate of the Republican Party. Like Edwin S. Stuart, 
John Kinley Tener is no man’s man. In his address accept¬ 
ing the nomination for Governor, Mr. Tener said:— 

"If elected Governor I shall administer the affairs of my 
office as a sacred trust and only in the interest of all the 
people of the Commonwealth, irrespective of party affiliations. 
Their wish shall be my guide and their approval my greatest 
reward.” 

John Kinley Tener will not take any man’s orders. 

A POPULAR CANDIDATE. 

It may interest the people of this State to learn something 
of the personality of the man who will serve as their next 
Governor. John Kinley Tener is of “heroic mould.” He is 

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six feet five inches tall and has the proportions of an athlete. 
He has Irish blue eyes and a square set chin. He has been 
styled the “handsomest member of the House at Washington.” 
His face is that of a man of unusual intelligence and deter¬ 
mination. His manner is kindly and sympathetic. Person¬ 
ally, he is very popular. He is forty-seven years old. 

John Kinley Tener has had an interesting career. 

Of the lineage, a branch of which was settled in Western 
Pennsylvania previous to the Revolutionary War, Mr. Tener 
was born in the city of Tyrone, Ireland, July 25, 1863. He 
was one of ten children. When quite young and shortly after 
the death of his father, he, with the other members of his 
family, came to this country and settled in Pittsburg. 

Mr. Tener received the advantage of whatever educational 
facilities were provided by the public and high schools of 
that city. That same energy and application which has char¬ 
acterized his whole life was early manifested in his school 
life, which was thorough and as complete as the circumstances 
would permit. 

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MR. TENER AS AN ATHLETE. 

After leaving school his first employment was with the 
firm of Oliver Brothers & Philips, in a clerical capacity. He 
afterwards held positions of trust with the Chartiers Valley 
Glass Company and the Chartiers and McKee Gas Company. 

From early life Mr. Tener has been fond of athletics. His 
splendid physique gave him a particular advantage in this 
direction. Before his public school days were over he had 
attracted attention as a baseball player. His ability in that 
direction came to the notice of Captain (Pop) Anson, who 
was at that time and for some years afterwards the famous 
and successful manager of the Chicago Club of the National 
League. He became a member of that team and immediately 
assumed first rank as a pitcher. In that capacity he accom¬ 
panied the famous Spalding aggregation of baseball athletes 
on their tour around the world in the fall of 1889-90. This 
was undoubtedly the most remarkable trip ever taken by a 
band of athletes, and resulted in the introduction of America’s 
National game in many portions of the globe. 





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ENTERS UPON A BUSINESS CAREER. 

Wishing to enter a business career, Mr. Tener abandoned 
professional baseball and went to Charleroi, about twenty 
years ago, where he assumed the position of cashier of the 
First National Bank of that place. Charleroi is one of those 
remarkable towns which seem to have sprung up in a night. 
It is now one of the most substantial of the smaller munic¬ 
ipalities in the State. Mr. Tener has been identified with its 
growth and has been prominent and active in every move¬ 
ment for its advancement. The small bank he entered as 
cashier has become one of the substantial institutions of that 
section. A few years after his services with it began, his 
associates, recognizing his ability as a financier, made him 
president of the institution, which position he still holds. Some 
years ago Mr. Tener was active in the organization of the 
Charleroi Savings and Trust Company, in which institution 
he became treasurer and active officer and in which he is still 
interested. 

Mr. Tener was instrumental and largely interested in the 
•construction of street car lines in Charleroi, and is now the 
president of the company that manages the new large steel 
bridge across the Monongahela at that point and connecting 
Charleroi and Monessen. He is also largely interested in 
other financial and manufacturing establishments in Wash¬ 
ington and surrounding counties. 

Mr. Tener pre-eminently is a leading man of affairs, occupy¬ 
ing a prominent and commendable position in the business 
community and belongs to that class of energetic and able 
young men who have made the Pittsburg district the manu¬ 
facturing centre of the nation and the wonder and marvel 
of the world. He is a self-made man; he has carved his own 
fortune, starting at the bottom. By his own efforts he has 
lifted himself to the position of distinction and responsibility 
he now enjoys. 

ALWAYS A REPUBLICAN. 

Mr. Tener always has been a Republican. He has been 
active and energetic in the support of his party. Although 
often solicited, he consistently refused to permit the mention 
of his name for any office within the gift of the party until 


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the year 1907, when he was persuaded to become candidate 
for Congress. This consent was secured only after pressure 
which was irresistible had been brought to bear upon him. 
In the campaign that followed his opponent was Ernest F. 
Acheson, who had been a member of Congress for fourteen 
years and who was considered one of the most resourceful 
politicians in this State. Putting all the strength of his 
splendid personality into the contest, Mr. Tener won a signal 
victory. His popularity at home was attested by the fact 
that he carried Charleroi by a vote of 866 to 87. He carried 
his county by a majority of over 4,200, and the town of Wasn- 
ington, where his opponent lived, by more than 750. At the 
general election his majority was over 10,000. Upon enter¬ 
ing Congress, Mr. Tener was signally honored by appoint¬ 
ment to the very important Committee on Rivers and Har¬ 
bors, a distinction which rarely comes to a member of that 
body during his first term. Other important committee as¬ 
signments were given him. His career in Congress has been 
marked by the same devotion to duty and successful efforts 
that has characerized his entire life. 

ESSENTIALLY A HOME MAN. 

Notwithstanding all his varied and important business in¬ 
terests, Mr. Tener is essentially a home man, and has always, 
found ample time for the full enjoyment of his home life. 
About twenty years ago he married Miss Harriet Day, an 
accomplished young woman of Haverhill, Mass. For many 
years they have occupied a beautiful residence in Charleroi. 
It is the centre of social activities in that community. Mr. 
Tener is at his best when surrounded by his friends in his 
own home. He is a member of the Baptist Church. He is 
prominenly identified with several organizations, among which 
is the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was 
elected Grand Treasurer of that body at the second session 
of the Grand Lodge, which he attended. So. efficient was his 
administration of that trust, and so great was his popularity, 
that after three years as Grand Treasurer he was elected to 
the position of Grand Exalted Ruler. He is a member of 
the Duquesne, the Pittsburg Athletic and other clubs. 



FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 



JOHN M. REYNOLDS 


JOHN MERRIMAN REYNOLDS 


As a student, lawyer, business man and legislator, John 
M. Reynolds has attained marked success. Although he 
comes from the ranks of the plain people, he has a right 
to pride of ancestry. For generations his people have had 
the respect and confidence of the communities in which they 
resided. 

Patrick H. Reynolds, his father, was a native of Ireland, 
and was but eight years of age when he accompanied his 
parents to this country. They settled in Lancaster County 
and there established a home. Patrick H. Reynolds married 
Ann, daughter of Andrew Barnett and Rose Barnett, of 
Baltimore County, Maryland, and they became the parents of 
eight children. He was a well-to-do farmer and an influential 
citizen. He dealt extensively in live stock and operated a 
grist mill located on his farm. 

John Merriman Reynolds attended the Lancaster County 
public schools for the usual period; then he entered the First 
Pennsylvania State Normal School, at Millersville, Pa., from 
which institution he was graduated in 1867, subsequently re¬ 
ceiving the degree of A. M. from Columbian University. Shortly 
afterwards he removed from Lancaster County to Bedford and be¬ 
came an instructor of teachers in the County Normal School. 
For the two school years of 1867-68 he was principal of the 
Bedford public schools. Having chosen the law for his pro¬ 
fession, on February 15, 1870, he was admitted to the Bedford 
County bar, and at once began to practice. He devoted his 
entire time to his clientele, which grew to large proportions. 
His practice subsequently extended into the surrounding 
counties, and finally embraced nearly every leading civil and 
criminal case tried at the Bedford County bar, or from there 
to the Supreme Court, in which latter tribunal, for twenty-five 
years, he had not missed a term. 

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AS A STATE LEGISLATOR. 

In his earlier years Mr. Reynolds was a supporter of the 
Democratic Party. He represented the district composed of 
Bedford and Fulton Counties in the Pennsylvania Legislature 
during the sessions of 1873-74 as the youngest member of 
that body, and took an active part in framing legislation to 
make effective the State Constitution, adopted in 1873. At 
the close of his term he declined a renomination, and in the 
autumn of 1875 was elected District Attorney of Bedford 
County, for which office, after three years’ service, he declined 
renomination. In 1881 he was the choice of his party in 
Bedford County for president judge in the Bedford-Somerset 
D : strict, but withdrew in favor of Hon. W. J. Baer, of Som¬ 
erset. In 1882 he was a candidate for State Senator from the 
Bedford-Somerset-Fulton District, but was defeated by 144 
votes. Again, in 1891, he was the Democratic candidate for 
president judge in the Bedford-Somerset District, and though 
not successful reduced the previous majority against him in the 
district over three thousand. 

In 1892 he was appointed by Governor Pattison one of the 
five commissioners to select a site and build the Asylum for 
the Chronic Insane of the State. He was secretary of the 
commission for four years, performing the duties without 
compensation. At Wernersville, Berks County, may be seen 
a monument to those four years’ labor on his part in buildings 
costing half a million dollars and completed within the original 
appropriation. 

As Assistant Secretary of the Interior from 1893 to 1897 
Mr. Reynolds made a splendid record. In that office he was 
mainly occupied in the direction of pension affairs, through 
which there was annually incurred an expenditure of nearly 
one hundred and fifty million dollars. His leading rulings 
are contained in Volumes VII and VIII of the Pension Deci¬ 
sions, selected from a mass of about twenty-five thousand 
cases, passed upon under his direction, and double the num¬ 
ber passed upon by his predecessor. The pension laws were 
construed by him with much liberality, and veterans of the 
Civil War indorsed his decisions, as well as . did their friends 
throughout the nation. 


FRIEND OF THE VETERANS. 

The soldier, his widow and his helpless ones received at 
Mr. Reynolds’ hands the justice that was theirs under the 
law. To effect this it was necessary for him to reverse many 
of the previous rulings of the Pension Office. He also ap¬ 
plied himself with the conscientious purpose to see that no 
wrongful expenditures were made of the public moneys on 
the one hand, and that none of the nation’s defenders or its 
helpless ones should be wronged to the extent of one farthing 
on the other. His ruling increased the ratings in many 
amputation cases, and placed many army nurses, widows, 
minors, insane, idiotic and helpless children upon the pension 
rolls who had been denied recognition by previous rulings 
of the Department. Much important legislation was enacted 
upon his suggestion, whereby more liberality was extended, 
especially in case of accrued pensions and reimbursements. 
Mr. Reynolds closed the term of his office by directing the 
publication of a digest in one volume of all the decisions of the 
various departments of the Government and of the courts 
relating to pensions and bounty lands, a work which con¬ 
sumed many months of labor and which has been pronounced 
a model of its kind. The more important of his decisions are 
on issues relating to “Honorable and Dishonorable Discharge 
and Desertion,” “Effect of Enlistment and Service in the 
Confederate Army,” “Army Nurses,” “Rules Governing Rat¬ 
ings in Amputation Cases,” “Widows’ Pensions,” “Com¬ 
mencement of Pensions,” “Accrued Pensions and Reimburse¬ 
ments,” “Line of Duty,” “Pensions to Minors, Insane, Idiotic 
and Helpless Children,” “Dependence, etc.” He received fre¬ 
quent commendation from veteran organizations for his liber¬ 
ality towards the soldier, his widow and orphan. His work 
was reviewed and specially approved in a speech in the 
House in 1906 by George B. McClellan. The “National 
Tribune,” the Grand Army organ, frequently has praised his 
services to the veterans. 

ELECTED TO CONGRESS. 

Through all his political life Mr. Reynolds has been an 
advocate of protection and sound currency, and for years he 
has been identified with the Republican Party, supporting : t 





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on the stump and in every campaign. Upon the adoption of 
the Chicago platform in 1896, finding himself unable to sup¬ 
port the principles and theories of Mr. Bryan, which he 
regarded as dangerous heresies, his voice was heard on the 
stump in favor of “sound money,” and he cast his vote for 
William McKinley and the full Republican ticket. Having 
taken a decided stand, he was found to be the choice of the 
Republican Party in Bedford County in 1900 for the nomina¬ 
tion for Congresss, but withdrew in favor of Hon. Alvin 
Evans. I11 1904 he was elected to the Fifty-ninth Con¬ 
gress. In 1906 he was renominated for a second term, and 
was elected after one of the most hotly contested cam¬ 
paigns ever conducted in his district by a large majority over 
his three opponents. In 1908 he was elected for a third term 
by a majority of 10,251, a majority never before equalled 
in that district. 

In Congress Mr. Reynolds represented his constituency 
with great ability, zeal and industry. Although he was con¬ 
spicuously identified with legislation of National importance, 
he was also unusually successful in securing appropriations 
for Federal buildings and other projects with which the Nine¬ 
teenth District was directly concerned. Through his influence 
there has been established a complete system of rural postal 
routes, which form a network all over the district and is a 
monument to his industry in behalf of his rural constituents. 
He also secured from the Agricultural Department a soil 
survey, which will prove of inestimable value to the farmers 
of the Nineteenth District. 

FOR PRESIDENT’S POLICIES. 

Mr. Reynolds was a member of the House Committee on 
Territories which reported the bill for the admission of the 
Indian Territory and Oklahoma and Arizona and New 
Mexico as States. In 1907 to better equip himself for his 
official duties as a member of the Committee on Territories 
and Public Lands, he visited Alaska and the Philippines and 
acquainted himself with oriental conditions by traveling in 
China and Japan. He has been an enthusiastic advocate of 
the conservation, pure food, railway and labor policies of 


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Theodore Roosevelt and supported all his measures. He has 
also stood faithfully by President Taft, voting' for all of the 
important administration measures. He has been the friend 
of labor, as his vote on the Employers’ Liability Law, his 
speech in the House on “Workman’s Compensation and In¬ 
dustrial Accidents,” and, as .various resolutions offered in 
Congress will show. 

In the House Mr. Reynolds has been especially active in 
behalf of the old soldiers, not only of his own district, but 
throughout the country. His experience in the various de¬ 
partments at Washington and his wide personal acquaintance 
among members of Congress proved valuable to him in his 
efforts to serve the men who fought for the nation’s life. He 
pressed to final passage many pension bills; he was the first 
Representative to introduce a bill increasing the pension of 
soldiers’ widows from eight dollars to twelve dollars per 
month and in other ways was of real service to the veterans. 

ABILITY AS A DEBATER. 

Mr. Reynolds is an able debater and always an effective 
speaker. His speech on the tariff system, when the Payne 
tariff bill was brought before the House, was a masterly pre¬ 
sentation of the argument in support of the protective policy. 
With great ability he also presented his views on a resolution 
directing an inquiry into the liability of employers in industrial 
accidents. This speech has attracted widespread attention, 
especially among the wage-earners of the country. 

Mr. Reynolds is married. Before her marriage, Mrs. Rey¬ 
nolds was Miss Ella J. Hartley, of Bedford. They have three 
children. 

Last December Mr. Reynolds announced that he would not 
accept another nomination for Congress, as he had decided 
to retire and devote his attention to his law practice and 
various interests. The nomination for Lieutenant-Governor 
came to him entirely unsolicited. 







FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS 



HENRY HOUCK 


HENRY HOUCK. 


The nomination of Henry Houck for another term as Sec¬ 
retary of Internal Affairs was received with a sense of personal 
gratification in the homes of this State. In every county he is 
known and greatly admired. For more than half a century he 
has been identified with the upbuilding of Pennsylvania’s public 
school system. His work as Deputy Superintendent of Public 
Instruction took him into every county, and his zeal and earnest¬ 
ness have been an inspiration to the youth of Pennsylvania. 

STARTS LIFE AS SHOEMAKER. 

Henry Houck is a native of Lebanon County, Pa. He was 
born at Palmyra, of Pennsylvania-German ancestry. His father 
was the village shoemaker and at that trade Henry Houck, when 
very young, was given occupation. But the boy’s mind was ever 
upon his books. It was his ambition to be a school teacher. He 
left the shoemaker’s bench to attend the district school. Later 
he attended the Annville Academy, walking there daily, a dis¬ 
tance of about eleven miles. A few years later he was fortunate 
enough to secure the advantage of tutelage by an excellent teacher 
of Latin and Greek. When but 16 years of age he became a 
school teacher in Lebanon County. From that time until the 
present he has been identified with Pennsylvania’s public school 
system. The first official position he held was Superintendent of 
Schools of Lebanon County, a position he retained for eight 
years. Two years later he was appointed Deputy Superintendent 
of Schools by Dr. J. P. Wickersham, at that time the State 
Superintendent. He discharged the duties of that office with 
great ability until he assumed the duties of Secretary of Internal 
Affairs in 1907 . 

The long period of incessant toil and devotion to the cause 
of public education by Mr. Houck brought him a wide acquaint¬ 
ance not only in Pennsylvania, but throughout the country. His 

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zeal for that great cause, with a genial disposition and a keen 
sense of humor have endeared him to hundreds of thousands 
of persons with whom he became a great favorite as a lecturer 
at teachers’ institutes and other educational and social gatherings. 
As an educator, in the opinion of those familiar with his effective 
service, he has few equals in this country. 

POPULAR AMONG THE PEOPLE. 

Personally, Mr. Houck is exceedingly popular. His own 
struggles to educate and elevate himself have made him deeply 
sympathetic, and he is always ready to share with all classes 
their hopes and their ambitions to advance themselves. By the 
thousands of men and women who have taught school in this 
State he is regarded as a friend. The feeling of teachers toward 
Mr. Houck was indicated a few years ago when they presented 
him with a purse of nearly $ 1,800 to be expended by him in a 
tour of the Holy Land and of countries of Asia, Africa and 
Europe. 

Wherever Mr. Houck has gone on his work of education, 
he has received a welcome, unrestricted by religious faith and 
untainted by partisan feeling. It has been his purpose to place 
the citizenship of Pennsylvania upon a higher plane through the 
broad influences of the public schools. In this he has accom¬ 
plished much. 

Four years ago Mr. Houck’s candidacy for the office of 
Secretary of Internal Affairs met with a hearty response from 
the people. He received a large complimentary vote in every 
county. His service in that office has been distinguished by those 
high qualities which previously had brought him such honor and 
respect. His successful administration secured for him a unani¬ 
mous renomination. It is the confident belief of his friends that 
this action will be generously ratified by the people at the elec¬ 
tions in November. 




FOR STATE TREASURER 



C. F. WRIGHT 




CHARLES FREDERICK WRIGHT. 


Charles Frederick Wright, of Susquehanna, belongs to that 
substantial, conservative element known as “business men.” He 
is a type of the always reliable Pennsylvania citizenship and 
represents the high degree of honesty, integrity and business 
ability required by the exacting duties of the office of State 
Treasurer. His appointment to that office was followed by a 
unanimous nomination by the Republican State Convention. 

Mr. Wright is a son of the late Chester Wright, of Forest 
Lake, and brother of the late Hon. Myron B. Wright, of Sus¬ 
quehanna. He is 54 years old. After attending the schools of 
Forest Lake, his native town, he entered the Montrose Academy, 
from which institution he was graduated. On the organization 
of the First National Bank of Montrose in 1875 , Mr. Wright 
assumed a responsible position in that institution, where he won 
the confidence and esteem of all who came in business contact 
with him. In 1881 he removed to Susquehanna and became 
general manager of several manufacturing companies located in 
Susquehanna County. In 1884 he was made assistant cashier and 
later cashier of the National Bank of Susquehanna. 

In the convention to nominate a successor in Congress to 
Hon. Myron B. Wright, Charles F. Wright was the unanimous 
choice of Susquehanna County for that position. The confer¬ 
ence decided upon another; but in 1898 he was nominated for 
Congress. He was elected by a large majority. The Montrose 
Independent Republican at that time said: 

“To such voters of the district as may not be personally 
acquainted with Mr. Wright, we can but say that we of his 
home county know him and that right well, and shall delight in 
honoring him, for we know that in his public life, as in his 
private, he will be an honor to his friends, his county and the 
Fourteenth District. Mr. Wright was born and spent the early 
years of his life upon his father’s farm, and receiving his edu- 

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cation in our common schools entered upon his business life at 
an early age and by his force of character, splendid abilities and 
absolute honesty has attained gratifying success, and won the 
esteem and admiration of all whose privilege it is to know him. 
He is an admirable Congressman, whose first thought will be for 
the interest of his constituents and whose time will be ever at 
their command.” 

Mr. Wright represented the Fourteenth District in Con¬ 
gress for six years. His service in that body was distinguished 
by ability and industry. He also represented that district as a 
delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1896 , 1904 
and 1908 . 


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HARMONY IN STATE CONVENTION 


UNANIMOUS NOMINATION FOR THE MEN WHO 
WILL LEAD REPUBLICAN HOSTS TO VICTORY. 


Representative Tener’s name was presented to the conven¬ 
tion by Judge James F. Taylor, of the Common Pleas Court of 
Washington County. Judge Taylor said: 

“In an assemblage of freeman, and for the purposes here 
convened, we should keep in mind that we are descended from 
those who left behind them in their passage over the ocean the 
feudal system, hereditary aristocracy, primogeniture, entails and 
the established church. Freed from all these restrictions and class 
distinctions, in a new country of our own making, with a con¬ 
stitution founded upon the principle of equality before the law 
and liberty and justice to every man, ‘there is nothing in the 
world,’ said Godwin Smith, ‘so sound as American society with 
its intimate union of all clases, its general diffusions of property, 
its common schools and its free religion.’ ‘Every American,’ said 
John Stuart Mill, ‘is in some sense a patriot and a person of culti¬ 
vated intelligence. No such wide diffusions of the ideas, tastes 
and sentiments of educated minds has ever been seen elsewhere 
or conceived of as attainable,’ and Aristotle wrote, ‘The people 
at large however contemptible soever they may appear when taken 
individually, are yet, when collectively considered, not perhaps 
unworthy of sovereignty.’ 

“Ours being a government by representation and the dele¬ 
gates this day assembled having a constituency electing them for 
representation for a special purpose, all are honor-bound to accept 
and abide by the results of its majority rule. 

TRIBUTE TO STUART. 

“Four years ago, when that quiet, unassuming, gentlemanly 
man from Philadelphia was nominated in this same convention 

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hall, some of those who had supported others and were unable 
to bury, for the moment, the disappointments of defeat, cried out, 
‘who is this man? We know him not.’ Gentlemen of the con¬ 
vention, this merchant in a modest way of good and of rare books 
in a Philadelphia book shop, is acknowledged to have thus far 
made an ideal Governor for the whole people. Not even the 
hypercritical or the most unconscionable ‘yellow’ has ever been 
able to point to a single blemish in his official armor; also in 
our sister states Edwin S. Stuart is an acknowledged model 
Governor. 

“The waters sweeping down from the mountains of'Virginia, 
through gorge and vale and shadow on their eastern border, swell 
into a beautiful river in the fairest of valleys in the foot hills of 
the Alleghenies. In their flow to the north they skirt and skit by, 
once the home of Gallatin and the birthplace of Blaine and Knox. 
This valley with its river, once the happy hunting ground of the 
painted Monongahelas, then teeming with wild fertility, is now 
viewed for fifty miles or more from the Smoky City to Browns¬ 
ville, with its banks and bottoms lined and covered with mills and 
mines and factories and homes. On its waters alone in each and 
every year float to market a greater tonnage than any other inland 
stream of the world. In its industrial and mining development 
fifty-two million dollars worth of work was under contract in a 
single year. 

A VALLEY OF INDUSTRY. 

“Leaving the labor of the mill, retiring from the modern 
Marathon and active participation in the athletics of the diamond 
field, there came into this valley of industrial activity a few years 
since, a strapping, stalwart young man, in stature over six feet, 
clear and keen of intellect, courageous of heart and strong of arm 
and’determination, seeking a new field of opportunity for the 
employment of his resistless energies. He located in the Magic 
City of Charleroi, then building, and established for himself a 
home and engaged in banking and other pursuits incident to the 
business of this new town. Its projector and promoter, mid the 
weight of this work and its responsibilities, fell in death before 
its completion. 

“In casting about for a w r orthy successor upon whom his 
mantle might fall, by one consent, the people turned to and 






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selected this young man. Due largely to his thought, direction 
and executive abilities, the Magic City of Charleroi is now the 
pride of this industrial valley. In 1908 , in recognition of his 
abilities to direct and do, together with his manly bearing, the 
freemen of the Twenty-fourth Congressional district elected him 
to Congress and there he did so behave himself well, that a few 
days ago he was renominated for a second term. Among his 
neighbors and acquaintances and those who know him best he is 
called ‘Popular John’ and ‘Honest John,’ but the name by which 
we present this young man to you for nomination for the next 
Governor of this great Commonwealth, and whom I nominate 
for the same, is the Honorable John K. Tener, of Charleroi, citi¬ 
zen and resident of Washington County, named for the father 
of our common country.” 

REPRESENTATIVE ALTER’S ADDRESS. 

The nomination of Mr. Tener was seconded by Representa¬ 
tive George E. Alter, of Pittsburg, who spoke as follows: 

“It has been said, well said by a very distinguished Penn¬ 
sylvanian that ‘there is not a more fertile field for high public 
service at this period than in the States, whose powers and rela¬ 
tions should be appreciated, exercised and preserved for the 
general good of the whole country.’ No words could be more 
true. No truth is more important to be understood than this, 
that it is to a wise administration of the State government that 
the citizen must look for the things upon which depends his high¬ 
est welfare, so far as the government can secure these 
things. 

“In this great convention is vested the power and upon it 
rests the responsibility of naming the man who for the next four 
years will be the chief magistrate of this Commonwealth. In 
this period of unrest it is important that this office continue to be 
filled, as it now is, by a man of strength, of poise and of 
unquestioned integrity and singleness of purpose. Upon his 
strength, upon the clearness of his mind, upon the breadth of his 
sympathies and the truth of his heart will depend the permanence 
of our best possessions, the confidence and contentment of the 
people and the progress and development of our great State, 


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WILL BE A GREAT GOVERNOR. 

“A name has been placed in nomination for this high office. 
It is a name which is not unfamiliar to the people whom he rep¬ 
resents. I predict that before the expiration of the term of office 
to which he is going to be elected his name will be known through¬ 
out the land as that of a Governor who has distinguished himself 
by earning to an unusual degree the respect, the gratitude and 
tl\e affection of the people of Pennsylvania. Recognizing the 
strength of his character, the kindness of his heart and the breadth 
of his sympathies, all manifest to anyone who has looked into his 
face and felt the firm clasp of his hand; recognizing the earnest¬ 
ness of his purpose, the purity of his motives and his firm and 
rugged integrity; believing that his administration will be 
marked by diligence in working for the good of all the 
people, that he will insist on faithful public service, that he 
will represent no special interests, that he will handle all ques¬ 
tions fairly and conscientiously, that he knows men and how to 
judge them, that no citizen will be turned away by him without 
a hearing, but that he can say ‘no’ when it should be said; recog¬ 
nizing and sincerely believing all this, I feel honored and it gives 
me great pleasure as one of the representatives of the State of 
Allegheny to second the nomination of our friend and neighbor of 
the county of Washington, the Hon. John K. Tener.” 

MR. REYNOLD’S QUALIFICATIONS. 

The name of Representative Reynolds was presented for the 
nomination for Lieutenant Governor by C. R. Rhoades, of Bed¬ 
ford. Mr. Rhoades stated that Bedford never had been honored 
with a place on a State ticket. That county, he said, had in John 
M. Reynolds a man who has a national reputation, a trained 
parliamentarian, a man of classical education, who would make an 
able and dignified presiding officer of the Senate. Mr. Rhoades 
referred to Representative Reynolds as a lawyer who stands at 
the head of his profession, a successful business man in the iron, 
coal and lumber industries, a man who, while employing many 
men, has never had a strike because he has always paid the highest 
wages, a member of Congress, serving his third term, who is an 
authority upon all pension matters and who has just been made 
an honorary member of the Loyal Legion for his services in 






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behalf of the old soldiers, and who has stood loyally by the 
national administration in all matters of legislation. 

POPULARITY OF HENRY HOUCK. 

Representative Gabriel H. Moyer, of Lebanon, placed Henry 
Houck in nomination for a second term in the office of Secretary 
of Internal Affairs. In part he said: 

“Henry Houck’s history is so well known that I need not 
recount it to you. He has spoken from every platform and ros¬ 
trum in every village within the confines of this State and beyond; 
he has brought cheer and sunshine to myriad hearts by the Evan¬ 
gel of Good Hope that his very presence bears; he has stood for 
all that makes for happiness and contentment and for the good 
that brings its own just recompense of reward. Ten thousand 
lives and more today bear witness to his kindly life and to his 
helping hand and gladly yield their testimony to the good he has 
rendered. 

“I like to think of him in his lowly origin. Born in my own 
fair town of Palmyra, he spent his early days in the lovely vale 
of Lebanon, amid the scenes that are, we are prone to think, a 
very paradise on earth. I think of him as a farmer’s son coming 
from the great common stock; a member of the class that pro¬ 
duced a Lincoln and countless other legions, leaders in the forum 
and the field, who counted it a joy to render service to their 
country. 

“He represents the great middle classes, the bone and sinew 
of the nation, her pride now and her hope for years to come. 
Though he has risen to places of proud honor, the teachings and 
the habits of his early life have not deserted him. When this 
great State of Pennsylvania called him from the work wherein 
his heart lies and placed him here in your capital, an honored 
officer of the Commonwealth, his democratic manner, his affabil¬ 
ity, the paternal solicitude that he had for all who came within 
the sphere of his charming personality, endeared him to the count¬ 
less thousands who were proud to be called his guests.” 

FOLLOW THE LEAD OF STUART. 

Fred W. Fleitz, of Lackawanna County, former Deputy 
Attorney General in urging the nomination of Charles F. Wright 
for State Treasurer asserted that Mr. Wright’s selection would 


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be a recognition of great Northeastern Pennsylvania, that his 
nomination would strengthen the Republican forces in that sec¬ 
tion and help them to win doubtful districts. He depicted his 
candidate as a laborer, farmer, business man and manufacturer, 
and said the very fact that he had been appointed by Governor 
Stuart to the office which he now fills should be sufficient recom¬ 
mendation of his character and worth. 

“The Republicans of Pennsylvania,” said he, “need not 
hesitate to follow where Edwin S. Stuart has led.” 

With great enthusiasm the convention nominated each candi¬ 
date by acclamation. 





CANDIDATES ACCEPT NOMINATION 


ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING OF REPUBLICANS AT 
FORMAL NOTIFICATION IN PITTSBURG. 


In pursuance of a resolution offered by Hon. William S. 
Vare, of Philadelphia, and adopted by the Republican State 
Convention,’ the chairman was directed to appoint a commit¬ 
tee formally to notify the candidates nominated for the offices 
of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of Internal 
Affairs and State Treasurer. The Chairman, Hon. W. E. 
Crow, accordingly appointed these delegates a Committee on 
Notification:— 

THE NOTIFICATION COMMITTEE. 

William S. Vare, Chairman; Samuel W. Salus, Thomas W. 
Cunningham, Joseph Gilfillan, Oscar E. Noll, Chester P. Ray, 
Thomas B. Smith, and John J. McKinley, Jr., Philadelphia; 
William I. Schaffer, Delaware; Henry F. Aucker, Bucks; 
Joseph D. C. Ulmble, Berks; Frank P. Croft, Montgomery; 
Samuel W. Diller, Lancaster; Samuel W. Hofford, Carbon; 
Edward E. Beidleman, Dauphin; William B. Schaeffer, Lehigh; 
Gabriel H. Moyer, Lebanon; S. R. Bush, Northampton; 

Charles E. Coxe, Chester; Stephen J. Hughes, Luzerne; L. 
P. Holcomb, Luzerne; John Von Bergen, Jr., Lackawanna; 
Edwin M. Dunham, Bradford; Harry T. Stiger, Lycoming; 
Edward B. Dorsett, Tioga; H. H. Mullin, Cameron; William 
G. Murdock, Northumberland; E. L. Shroeder, York; 
William S. Leib, Schuylkill; Harry E. Ferguson, Blair; 

Quinn T. Mickey, Cumberland; Harry Kissinger, Fayette; 
Robert C. Gordon, Franklin; M. L. McQuown, Clearfield; 

George M. Wertz, Cambria; R. C. Haderman, Bedford; 

P. A. Hunter, Jefferson; John A. Fugassi, John Thomas, 
John Sauers, William A. Magee, H. S. Arthur and J. J Craw- 

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ford, Allegheny; W. S. Bumbaugh, Westmoreland; John 
Dindinger, Butler; W. J. Kyle, Greene; Vincent L. Brad¬ 
ford, Beaver; C. R. Galbreath, Venango; Henry Beckman, 
Erie; and C. Victor Johnson, Crawford. 

ENTHUSIASM OVER TICKET. 

The notification took place in the presence of a large and 
enthusiastic gathering of Republicans from every section of 
Pennsylvania at the clubhouse of the Americus Club in Pitts¬ 
burg, July 23. Each of the candidates accepted the nomi¬ 
nation tendered him. The notification address was delivered 
by Chairman Vare. In introducing Mr. Vare, William A. 
Magee, Mayor of Pittsburg, said:— 

ADDRESS OF MAYOR MAGEE. 

“Fellow Republicans:—The Republican State Convention 
recognizing the claims of Western Pennsylvania, in its wis¬ 
dom selected for the two leading positions on the State 
ticket two eminent citizens from west of the mountains, one the 
standard bearer, a lifelong resident of our own city and the 
vicinity, and the second our near neighbor of Bedford County. 
It is therefore fitting that they should be formally apprised 
of the action of that convention in this city and in this club, 
famous' throughout the United States and well' known and 
admired for its stalwart adherence to the principles of the 
party by Republicans throughout the nation. The conven¬ 
tion also nominated two of the best known and respected 
citizens of the eastern part of the State for the offices of State 
Treasurer and Secretary of Internal Affairs. 

CONFIDENCE IN THE CANDIDATES. 

“On behalf of the citizens of Pittsburg and the Americus 
Republican Club, I have the honor to welcome the candidates 
and all of the other distinguished gentlemen here to the city 
and to this assemblage. The presence of so many men who 
love and serve their party from all over the state is an 
indication of the regard and confidence in which our can¬ 
didates are held and an augury of the usu^l overwhelming 
success gf tfi$ ticket ^t tfi$ election, 










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“I take pleasure in introducing the Honorable W. S. Vare, 
Chairman of the Notification Committee, who will preside over 
the meeting/’ 

CANDIDATES FORMALLY NOTIFIED. 

Chairman Vare thus notified the candidates of their nomina¬ 
tion :— 

“Mr. Chairman and Fellow Republicans:—In pursuance of 
a resolution adopted by the Republican State Convention 
held in Harrisburg June 22d, a Committee on Notification 
has assembled here to-day formally to carry out the instruc¬ 
tions of that body by notifying those whom it nominated 
for the offices of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary 
of Internal Affairs and State Treasurer. 

“That Pittsburg should be selected as the place for the 
performance of this duty is entirely appropriate, a com¬ 
munity commanding in material development; distinguished 
for the public spirit of its citizenship; great in its progressive¬ 
ness and superb in its unfaltering loyalty to the principles 
of the Republican Party. 

“Investing the supreme executive power in the Governor, 
the constitution of Pennsylvania requires that official to ‘take 
heed that the laws be faithfuly executed.’ Few greater 
honors can come to a man than election to the high office 
of Governor of this great commonwealth. The people de¬ 
mand of the man whom they place in that exalted position 
that he shall be able, clean and honest, that he shall have 
had experience in public affairs and that against his character 
there shall have been no whisper of suspicion. 

COURAGEOUS AND INDEPENDENT. 

“Such a man is the candidate of the Republican Party for 
Governor in 1910. His selection by the delegates to the 
Harrisburg convention met with instant approval from the 
people and the press of Pennsylvania. It was agreed that 
no other man in this State was better qualified for that high 
office. Although involved in the bitterness of political strife 
he never has been compelled to defend his personal character. 
From boyhood his life has been free from reproach and to¬ 
day he has the respect and confidence of every man and 


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woman who knows him. He is a successful business man. 
From the day when as a lad he sought employment his 
relations with his associates have been upright and honorable. 
He is an experienced legislator. He has rendered valuable 
service to that consituency which selected him as its Repre¬ 
sentative in the national legislature. As a member of that 
body and identified with our national affairs, he has given 
close study to the science of government. Always a loyal 
Republican, he has been in politics courageous and indepen¬ 
dent. Personally he is a companionable gentleman and very 
popular. He is a splendid type of Pennsylvania’s best citizen¬ 
ship. As Governor he will serve the people of this common¬ 
wealth well and faithfully. 

“John Kinley Tener, I now formally notify you of your 
nomination for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania. 

DELIBERATION OVER SECOND PLACE. 

“The Republican State Convention exercised great care in 
the selection of a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. That 
official presides over the Senate and under certain exigencies 
may become Governor. Our candidate is qualified for the 
duties of both offices. He is a public-spirited citizen; he is 
learned in the law; he has had experience as a business man 
and is a trained legislator. He has served as a public prose¬ 
cutor; as the second highest official in the Interior Depart¬ 
ment at Washington he rendered the Federal Government 
notable service; he has served as a State Senator and as a 
member of the national legislature. To acept the office of 
Lieutenant-Governor he will retire from Congress, where 
he has had an extended and distinguished career. In every 
position of trust to which he has been called he has shown 
marked ability, integrity and a high order of public spirit. 
The convention worthily bestowed upon John M. Reynolds 
the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor.” 

POPULARITY OF HENRY HOUCK. 

“The convention's selection of the candidate for Secretary 
of Internal Affairs has proven an especially popular one. 
Because of the ability and fidelity with which the incumbent 
of that office has performed his duties np other name was 






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mentioned in connection with the nomination. The people 
of Pennsylvania know him well. For the cause of education 
this state devotes a larger portion of its revenue than any 
other commonwealth. The candidate of the Republican 
Party conspicuously has been identified with that great de¬ 
partment of instruction for many years, and had contributed 
much to its upbuilding when called to the office of Secretary 
of Internal Afifairs. In that office he has made a record which 
is very gratifying to the people. He has administered its 
affairs with that zeal and ability which distinguished his 
service in other positions of trust. 

“Hon. Henry M. Houck, the Republicans of Pennsylvania 
again present you as their candidate for the office of Secretary 
of Internal Affairs.” 

BUSINESS MAN FOR A BUSINESS OFFICE. 

“The convention made one other nomination. It was that 
of a business man for a business office. Every honest and 
prudent citizen of Pennsylvania will commend the Republican 
candidate for State Treasurer. The duties of that office de¬ 
mand unquestioned integrity and demonstrated business 
ability. The convention selected an ideal candidate upon 
whom all Republicans can unite. Of the strictest integrity, 
of excellent business qualifications, he has proven his effi¬ 
ciency in the administration of that important office. Sum¬ 
moned to the performance of his duties by an exigency which 
was so generally and so genuinely deplored, he in every way 
has established the fact that in him the people have an 
official competent and worthy of their confidence. Before 
assuming the duties of State Treasurer he was known to 
the people of Pennsylvania as a distinguished member of this 
state's delegation in Congress, in which body he represented 
his constituency with marked ability. 

“Hon. Charles F. Wright, you are now notified of your 
nomination for the office of State Treasurer. 

FORECAST OF REPUBLICAN VICTORY. 

“Fellow Republicans, the united action of the delegates in 
our State Convention forecasts similar united action by the 
Republicans of Pennsylvania at the polls. Witli its majority 


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of nearly 300,000 for William Howard Taft, this state re¬ 
tained its proud position at the head of the Republican 
column. Let this be another Republican year in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Our party presents candidates who are worthy of the 
support of all right thinking men. Their Republicanism is 
the Republicanism of Lincoln, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. 
They should and will receive an overwhelming indorsement 
from the people.” 








MR. TENER OUTLINES HIS POLICIES 


IN ACCEPTING NOMINATION HE DISCUSSES ISSUES 
OF THE CAMPAIGN. 


In accepting the nomination for Governor Representative 
Tener said: _ . 

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: 

“First permit me to thank you for your presence here, ex¬ 
pressing as it does, your recognition of Western Pennsylvania 
as well as your great interest in the object and purposes for 
which this meeting was called. You have brought from the 
Republican State Convention formal notification of my nomina¬ 
tion for the high office of Governor of this commonwealth. 

“To be unanimously selected by a convention of my fellow 
citizens representing the Republicans of all sections of this 
state, is indeed an honor of which I am deeply sensible. 

“Its acceptance involves serious duties and responsibilities 
which I fully appreciate. The record of the Republican party 
and its present principles and pledges furnish a platform 
upon which every thoughtful and patriotic citizen safely 
can stand. 

“Pennsylvania is today pre-eminent in all that tends to the 
welfare of the people. The enjoyment of life, liberty and 
property are secure and our citizens are not only untrammeled 
but aided by the administration of governmental affairs in every 
practical way in the promotion of their prosperity and the 
pursuit of happiness. When we realize that from the time of 
Curtin to Stuart the state has been governed almost contin¬ 
uously by representatives of the Republican party, executing 
Republican principles, we have a right to be proud of its 
achievements. 


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FULFILLMENT OF PLATFORM PLEDGES. 

“Long and rapid strides in the march of humanity toward 
a higher and better civilization have been made in the last half 
century. This is especially true of human government and the 
Republican party has ever been apace with, or in the lead, in 
the progress thus made. During all of this time every platform 
of our party, national and State, has declared for the betterment 
of the condition of our people, and these pledges have been 
faithfully fulfilled. The platform of the convention which you 
represent contains declarations of principles and assurances in¬ 
tended to be further helpful. Without a single exception I 
fully approve this platform and declaration of principles. If 
I am elected I will do all in my power to put into full operation 
its recommendations by proposing and urging the enactment of 
the necessary legislation to accomplish the same. 

“Coming, as I do, from a rural section, I appreciate the 
importance of good roads. Much progress has been made in 
that direction. Much more remains to be done. The consensus 
of opinion, in which I heartily concur, is that there should be a 
more comprehensive system of State-wide road improvement 
and that all the highways of the Commonwealth shall be speedily 
and permanently improved. 

“The preservation of the purity of food, water and the 
public health are of vital importance, and the most careful con¬ 
sideration demands the strict enforcement of all laws relating 
thereto. 

STATE ADMINISTRATION BUSINESS PROPOSITION. 

“For many years Pennsylvania has led all other States in 
her liberal support of the cause of popular education. I agree 
with the declarations of our platform that our school code be 
revised and simplified to the end that our State shall not only 
be the most liberal in this direction, but shall also have the best 
schools and the best school system obtainable. 

“The government of a State like ours is a great business 
proposition, and the several accounts should be so guarded and 
audited that no loss or leakage of any character shall be pos¬ 
sible. It is to our credit that acts of malfeasance in office have 





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been few, all of which have been vigorously prosecuted and 
punished. 

“In conclusion permit me to say I am signally honored by 
having associated with me on our State ticket my colleague in 
Congress, that splendid statesman, the Hon. J. M. Reynolds, 
of Bedford county, as well as that faithful official and genial 
gentleman from Lebanon county, the Hon. Henry Houck, and 
the man who was elected to fill the unexpired term in the most 
important office of State Treasurer, the Hon. C. F. Wright, of 
Susquehanna county. 

“We all recognize the wise and sagacious policies and prin¬ 
ciples which have distinguished the administration of the present 
Executive, Hon. Edwin S. Stuart. It shall be my earnest en¬ 
deavor to see that the course pursued by him shall be carried 
forward. Later on, as the campaign progresses, I hope to be 
able in a more detailed and definite way to discuss the issues 
before the people. 

“If elected Governor, I shall administer the affairs of my 
office as a sacred trust and only in the interest of all the people 
of this Commonwealth, irrespective of party affiliation. Their 
wish shall be my guide and their approval my greatest reward.” 




JOHN M. REYNOLDS ON THE ISSUES 


HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY FOR HALF A CENTURY, 
HISTORY OF REPUBLICAN ACHIEVEMENT. 


John M. Reynolds, the nominee for Lieutenant Governor, 
spoke as follows: 

“The honor bestowed on me by this unsought nomination for 
Lieutenant Governor is deeply appreciated. Profoundly sensible 
of the obligations it imposes, I accept it with an abiding hope 
that I may meet the full measure of expected fitness for the 
responsibilities of the coming campaign. If chosen by the people 
in November, I shall dedicate my best efforts to the service of 
the State, and to a faithful execution of the people’s trust. 

“The gratification this hour brings is heightened by the 
reflection that men so worthy, who have been tried and found 
true in their private lives and in public station are my associates 
upon the Republican ticket, and that the destiny of the Common¬ 
wealth, to the end of preserving its good name and the happiness 
and betterment of its people, may safely be intrusted to their 
hands. 

“The platform adopted by the recent State convention con¬ 
tains no uncertain phrases, nor meaningless pledges. It is a 
presentation of party performance in the State and Nation. 
It is a record of achievement by a party with definite policies 
and a unity of purpose. 

“It is a statement of pledges fulfilled in platforms, State 
and National, and of promises for the future, the guarantee of 
which is past party fidelity. 

“The right of the Republican party in Pennsylvania to a 
renewal of public confidence in the coming election is assured, if 
(duty performed be the measure of a people’s trust. The pledges 
tp^de four years ago have been redeemed by their incorporation 

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into the body of our laws, and the party has kept pace with the 
trend and spirit of the times. No halt in the progress of events 
shall mark its future, but true to the traditions of the past its 
record shall be on the side of reform wherever abuses or wrongs 
exist. 

SAFEGUARDING RIGHTS OF THE VOTER. 

“The whole tendency of its legislation has been to throw 
every possible safeguard around the purity of the ballot at the 
primary and general elections, and to insure the fairest possible 
expression of the popular will in the nomination and election of 
candidates. Through a revision of the election, and of the cor¬ 
poration and revenue, and of the public school laws now under 
consideration before commissions created by the Legislature, the 
Commonwealth may hope to attain its highest ideals in some of 
its most difficult problems of government. No party in any 
State government of the Union can present a better record of 
party fidelity to the people’s welfare. 

“When in 1906 the needs of the hour invoked radical 
changes in existing law, a Republican Executive heeded the 
sentiment and called a special session of the Legislature that 
enacted a body of statutes which today is the pride of the 
Commonwealth, and when a popular demand arose throughout 
the Nation to curb the encroachments and destroy the abuses of 
corporate power, a Republican Legislature with a wise Executive 
maintained the people’s cause and promulgated laws holding 
Corporations to the strict terms of the Constitution, and pro¬ 
vided a Railroad Commission to inquire into the business of all 
common carriers. The spirit of conservation in the preservation 
of the water powers of the State and in the extension of our 
forest reserves was alive with potent results before the National 
Government embodied its work in concrete form. The cause 
of education, the wards of the States and the institutions founded 
for charity, have been the recipients of the State’s most muni¬ 
ficent bounties, while the avenues to disease have been securely 
guarded and the health of the people protected against deleterious 
products. Ever mindful of its obligation to those who toil in 
our mines, our factories and mills, and in keeping with its record 
through forty years of legislation, the health and safety of 
women and children and of the aduU male employes in indus- 





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trial pursuits have been guarded with jealous care, and it only 
waits to solve the absorbing problem of industrial accidents with 
a view to devising ways for workingmen’s compensation therefor. 

A HISTORY OF PARTY PERFORMANCE. 

“With such devotion to the interests of the State, as this 
record shows, it cannot be thought that its voters will tear down 
the pillars of their faith in a moment of thoughtless political 
frenzy, and bury themselves in the ruins of their party’s achieve¬ 
ments or embark on the dangerous experiment of delivering the 
State into untried hands. 

“The history of this country for half a century is the history 
of Republican achievements. But the administrations of William 
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft have marked 
a distinct era in our national life. McKinley’s administration 
through the operation of the Dingley tariff and reciprocity, and 
the maintenance of the gold standard, preserved the nation from 
industrial ruin, and gave work to every man who wanted it. 
Then prosperity took the place of depression and adversity, 
and our industrial mills were opened instead of our silver free 
coinage mints. His was the era of reconciliation and an en¬ 
largement of the boundaries of the Republic in our war with 
Spain at humanity’s call. We acquired Porto Rico, Hawaii and 
the Philippines, and prepared for freedom the tyranny-ridden 
island of Cuba beneath her own flag. Respected as a world 
power, the Orient opened its doors to our commerce, our mar¬ 
kets were expanded, and in the interest of a world-wide ex¬ 
change we negotiated a treaty for the construction of an Isthmian 
Canal, the most stupendous achievement in unifying the trade 
of the world since government on this continent began. 

“Roosevelt’s administration was characteristic at every step 
of legislative progress, of his doctrine of a ‘square deal for all.’ 
He quickened the national conscience never before, and 
awoke the slumbering wrath of the people against wrongdoing 
in places high and low. He denied to one man or combination 
of men special privileges above those enjoyed by the mass in 
general. He curbed the power of unlawful trusts and combina¬ 
tions, and subjected corporate aggressions to tests in the courts 
of law. He impressed his advice upon the will of Congress, and 




brought forth laws for the Federal inspection of meats; for the 
protection of the people against impure products and fraudulent 
practices; for the regulation of commerce among the States; 
for the protection of the lives and safety of those employed in 
interstate transportation, and for the liability of employers to 
employes therein. 

ORGANIZATION AND WISE LEADERSHIP. 

“The surrender of his office followed with the pledge from 
Mr. Taft to execute the Roosevelt policies, and he has kept the 
faith in preventing an arbitrary increase in railway rates and 
in the enforcement of the anti-trust laws. Party pledges in our 
national platform have been redeemed in the passage of the best 
tariff law ever enacted. Though a revision downward, it affords 
adequate protection, and as a revenue producer it yielded last 
year $330,000,000, the highest on record. A Commerce Court for 
interstate railway cases has been created, railroads have been 
subjected to more complete supervision, postal savings banks will 
be established, two more sovereign States added to the Union, 
laws enacted for the conservation of our national resources that 
equal opportunity may be had for the whole people therein; a 
Bureau of Mines established to conserve the coal supply and 
to guard against explosions and accidents, and at every step, 
in State and Nation, the rights of the laboring masses as well 
as the interests of agriculture have been faithfully guarded. 

“A party that through a half century in shaping the destiny 
of a free people can show in these times a body of laws such 
as now on the statute books of our State and Nation, as an 
expression of the patriotic purposes and moral tendencies of its 
leaders and lawmakers, presents a record of exalted devotion 
to the cause of right in the affairs of government that entitles 
it to the homage of freemen and the praises of men. 

“These results have been attained through party organiza¬ 
tion and party direction. Organization is the very soul and 
being of party influence. Wise leadership is the effective agency 
for directing that influence in channels for the Nation’s good. 
Results attained through long years of uninterrupted party 
supremacy are the measure of patriotic fidelity on the part of its 
leaders. 


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THE PARTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

“Legislation under our form of government is not the 
product of one mind alone. It is the result of discussion, con¬ 
ference, compromise and adjustment to meet conflicting condi¬ 
tions and opposing opinions. But the party through whose 
agency the law is enacted, and by whose administration it is 
executed, must stand as its sponsor, reaping as its reward, 
through its success or failure, whatever of praise or censure 
may follow. 

“Judged by these truths, the organized agencies and leader¬ 
ship of the Republican party today in Pennsylvania, and 
throughout the Nation, may rightfully appeal for public ap¬ 
proval in the coming election, with firm reliance that the answer 
‘well done, good and faithful servants’ shall come through the 
people’s ballot, backed by one of Pennsylvania’s greatest majori¬ 
ties in Gubernatorial years. 

“That there are conditions at times in the ways of party 
government that call for censure, rebuke and even overthrow, 
no one doubts. But no such conditions exist in either State or 
Nation at this hour. Reaching back no farther than eight years 
in the administration of affairs, and mindful, too, of all the 
glorious achievements of a half century, wherever our party has 
been supreme, a great struggle has been waged and won in the 
upward tendencies of our national life, for the social betterment 
of the masses, and a strengthening for the people’s weal, in all 
the instrumentalities of government. 

“Hence this is not the hour for those of our same political 
faith to impugn our motives and purposes. In vigilant, search¬ 
ing and honorable criticism of political leaders, of public men 
and measures, lies the Nation’s hope that those intrusted with 
government shall be awake to their patriotic duty of condoning 
no wrong of friend or foe. But it ill becomes those who recog¬ 
nize no party obligation to abide by results attained through the 
nominating channels of their own choosing, often by their own 
indifference as well as by their refusal to co-operate in party 
action, to assume to themselves all political virtue and to deny 
it to their fellow party associates, on the plea that there exists 
some sinister purpose of changing the moral and social environ¬ 
ment which recent years have created, unmindful of the fact 






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that the whole record of party achievement belies the asser¬ 
tion, and that these creations are the result of the same means 
and agencies which set in motion that great wave of reform 
which is sweeping from its moorings every influence and power 
that menaces the republic, and to the swelling of the tide is being 
lifted the impulses of every patriotic heart. 

KEYSTONE STATE AND PROTECTION. 

“No, this is not the hour for those who believe in Republi¬ 
can principles and pride themselves on Republican achievement, to 
aid the cause of our opponents throughout the Nation in con¬ 
spiring for our defeat in this great State of protection. What¬ 
ever Pennsylvania is in her industrial glory she owes to the 
protective policy which is being assailed, not only by foes without, 
but by foes within her ranks. The Democratic leader in the 
House of Representatives, Mr. Clark, said in his Fourth of last 
July address to the Society of Tammany: ‘If we have the next 
House, as I believe we will have, we will report a bill to revise the 
tariff down to a revenue basis, pass it through the House and send 
it over to the Senate. Perhaps by that time the Senate, yielding to 
the public demand, will also pass it. If it does not we will 'go to 
the people on that issue in 1910.’ This is the same Mr. Clark, 
who, in the passage of the Wilson bill, declared if he had the 
power he would level to the ground every custom house from 
turret to foundation stone. A revenue tariff is a Democratic 
free trade tariff, and the struggle between a tariff for protection 
and a ‘tariff for revenue only’ was never more keenly waged than 
now, nor have the advocates of the latter been more hopeful of 
victory since the days of the Wilson bill. 

“While discord has reigned in the national councils of our 
party over the protective policy, yet I believe since the enactment 
in the closing days of the last Congress of those measures to 
which the party is pledged, that the ranks are closing for a for¬ 
ward and victorious movement which will clear the horizon of 
all doubts and give to us again the control of Congress. If so, 
the work begun by McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft will go for¬ 
ward to final completion, and this grand old State will stand 
as ever before the bulwark of all that is great in true Republi¬ 
canism and industrial progress.” 


ADDRESS OF HENRY HOUCK 


URGES THE VOTER TO STUDY RECORDS OF POLITI¬ 
CAL PARTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. 


Hon. Henry Houck said: 

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: 

“I gratefully acknowledge the distinguished honor conferred 
upon me by the renomination for another term of the office of 
Secretary of Internal Affairs. This expression of confidence and 
trust given by the late Republican Convention, and conveyed by 
you as its representatives, is most heartily appreciated by me. 
I accept the proffered candidacy with assurance that I shall 
acquit myself so as to be worthy of any favors the voters of the 
State may be pleased to bestow upon me. If re-elected my future 
aim shall be, as it has been in the past, to discharge all the duties 
of my office without omission or extenuation. I shall not forget 
that it will be my duty to administer the affairs of the Depart¬ 
ment by the Constitution and the laws framed under it, impar¬ 
tially, and with even-handed justice toward every class of citi¬ 
zens. In no other way can the interests of the Commonwealth 
be better conserved or advanced. 

“However, this declaration of purpose shall not interrupt 
my devotion to the party which has so signally honored me. 
Since the formation of J:he Republican party I have been a con¬ 
sistent believer in its principles, which approximate my ideals of 
policies for the government of our people more closely than do 
those of ony other organization. I know that they have im¬ 
mensely contributed to the greatness of the State and the nation, 
and I do not hesitate to express the opinion that the continuance 
of those policies will greatly promote and properly safeguard the 
future interests of our country. 

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“I respectfully urge a careful study of the achievements of 
all the parties which may solicit suffrage in the impending cam¬ 
paign, and then ask for a decision of the question as to which 
one is worthy of support on account of professions realized or 
deeds well performed. I believe the agreement will be with me 
that my faith in the Republican party is well founded, and that 
we will not err in again 1 entrusting it with the management of 
our State affairs. Thus persuaded, I hereby renew my loyalty 
to State and party and enter upon this conflict full of faith and 
hope for a triumphant victory.’ 5 









CHARLES F. WRIGHTS ACCEPTANCE 


APPOINTMENT BY GOVERNOR STUART AND UNANI¬ 
MOUS NOMINATION UNUSUAL HONOR. 


Hon. Charles F. Wright thus accepted the nomination for 
State Treasurer: 

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of x the Notification Committee: 

“As representatives of the Republican party I thank you 
and, through you, wish to express my gratitude to the delegates 
whose votes at the recent Republican convention unanimously 
placed me in nomination for the honorable and responsible 
office of State Treasurer. After my retirement from Congress 
in 1905 it was my firm determination never again to become an 
applicant or a candidate for any public office, expecting there¬ 
after to devote my time and energy to my personal affairs and 
in the enjoyment of my home life, not, however, forgetful of 
the obligations which every true citizen should feel in his poli¬ 
tical party, locally, as well as in the State and Nation. 

“The unfortunate death, however, of Mr. Stober, the 
lamented State Treasurer-elect, caused a vacancy to exist in that 
office on May 2nd, 1910. The appointment as State Treasurer 
coming to me, as it did, totally as a surprise and entirely un¬ 
solicited and from so distinguished a Governor as Hon. Edwin 
S. Stuart, changed my whole attitude,'politically, and I decided 
that my duty to myself, my family and my district demanded 
that I should not decline so signal an honor coming from an 
executive whose administration has commanded the respect and 
admiration of all the people of this and sister States, irrespective 
of class, religion, race or color. The appointment from Gov¬ 
ernor Stuart, coming as it did, I prize as one of the greatest 
political honors that could come to any citizen of the Common¬ 
wealth. 







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“In accepting the nomination, of which you notify me, you 
are assured that it is with a deep sense of gratitude and a full 
realization of the obligations and responsibilities to be assumed 
in connection with the duties imposed by the proper safeguard¬ 
ing of the funds belonging to the State and the lawful payments 
of the various appropriations made by legislative enactment. To 
be placed upon the ticket of the great Republican party in the 
great State of Pennsylvania and with such associates as the 
splendid candidates for the other offices, is an honor to be prized 
by any man. I accept the nomination and, if elected, promise 
to perform the various duties of the office upon a strict business 
basis and in conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth.” 


PENNSYLVANIA FREE FROM DEBT 


BUSINESS-LIKE ADMINISTRATION AND ADMIR¬ 
ABLE TAXATION SYSTEM CONVERT DEFICIT 
INTO TREASURY BALANCE. 


Pennsylvania’s financial condition is a source of pride to 
the people. No other State can make a better financial showing. 
In the sinking fund is a balance of $8,000 over and above the 
amount necessary to pay every cent of the State debt. In the 
general fund is a balance of about $8,000,000. This showing 
has attracted the attention of the financial officers of other States, 
and many inquiries are received by our State fiscal officers for 
information as to how this unusual condition has been brought 
about. Recently a student of taxation, who holds high office in 
the International Tax Association spent a day at Harrisburg 
examining our tax laws and their workings. So pleased was he 
with what he learned and so fair and just did our system appear, 
that he declared his State undoubtedly would model a tax law 
after our own, as soon as it could amend its Constitution. 
Other States have indicated an intention to follow along similar 
lines. Certainly the Republican leaders builded wisely and well 
when they established the present tax system. 

The tax system by which Pennsylvania has collected many 
millions during the years the system has been in operation is 
peculiar to this State. It had its origin as far back as 1811, 
and many of the, provisions of that Act, now about one hundred 
years old, are in force to-day. It was not, however, until 1844 
that anything in the nature of a tax system became operative, 
and this was not very satisfactory. Various amendments, sup¬ 
plements and new Acts were added, others, acting as repealers, 
until 1879 when a revenue-producing Act, the real basis of the 
present system of taxation, went into effect. Many of the pro- 

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visions of the Act of 1879 were re-enacted by the Act of 1889, 
which is, with a few changes, practically the system of to-day. 

TAXATION OF THE CORPORATIONS. 

The framers of our tax system, and the leaders of the 
Republican Party, through whose efforts the measure became 
law, deserve great credit for their acumen and foresight. To 
enact a law, different from that in use by any other State, and 
on totally different lines, a law that at once would produce the 
necessary amount of revenue for the needs of a great State, a 
law that would prove sufficient in producing revenue for grow¬ 
ing needs and new demands, a law that would not oppress cor¬ 
porations and hinder their growth, while it relieved almost en¬ 
tirely the heavy burdens of local taxation—the enactment of such 
a law showed courage, faith, discernment and a high degree of 
statesmanship. It fully meets the requirements. As proof of its 
adaptation one has only to notice that in 1890 the revenue of 
the State was $8,625,919, with expenses of $8,168,861. Twenty 
years later, with a total expenditure of $30,021,774 for 1909, the 
revenues were $29,101,184, and yet the changes in the meantime 
in the tax laws were comparatively few. The greater proportion 
of the increase came from the growth of corporate enterprise 
and capital and it can easily be seen that the larger share of the 
burden of taxation is borne by corporations. It has been the 
aim of the leaders of the Republican Party to decrease local tax¬ 
ation, encourage industries to locate in this State, so as to fur¬ 
nish employment and develop the great natural resources of the 
State and require corporations, as far as it can consistently be 
done, to bear a large share of the burden of taxes. 

DIFFICULTY OF PROVIDING REVENUE. 

Prior to 1878, according to the official records, the State of 
Pennsylvania never had a balance in the treasury at the end of 
the fiscal year. Not only was the balance lacking, but the duty 
of providing revenue for current uses and to pay the large 
amount annually due as interest on the debt of $38,000,000 (a 
duty to which the Republican Party fell heir in 1860), as well 
as to provide for the extinguishment of the debt as it became 
due, was a task requiring ability of a high order. From a modest 
$1,021,531, which was the balance in 1878, the figures grew, 




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until the year 1904 when a total of $15,822,368 was in the treas¬ 
ury at the close of the year. It is true the State was not then out 
of debt, but the bonds could be paid only as they matured or 
the owners could be persuaded, by the offer of a good premium, 
to surrender them for retirement or cancellation. 

In this connection it is proper to note the principal sources 
of revenue, the amount received from each, and how the money 
is disbursed, the figures given being for 1909. Corporations, as 
shown elsewhere in this volume, pay about seventeen million 
dollars; tax on personal property, $ 4 , 315 , 412 ; tax on collateral 
inheritances, $ 1 , 739 , 853 ; rax on writs, wills, deeds, etc., 
$ 204 , 934 ; tax on county and municipal loans, $ 360 , 666 ; licenses 
—mercantile, liquor, brewers, distillers, etc., $ 3 , 082 , 399 ; fees 
of State officers, $ 401 , 864 ; fines, $ 58 , 979 ; refunded cash, 
$ 54 , 108 ; oleo licenses, $ 44 , 842 ; insurance of State property, 
$ 98 , 629 ; Highway Department, refund on account of State 
aid in building roads, $ 1 , 172 , 519 , with a number of smaller 
items, the whole totaling $ 29 , 101 , 183 . 70 . 

SOUND REPUBLICAN POLICY. 

The principal items of expenditure were on the following 
accounts: 

Governmental expenses, which includes the Senate, House 
of Representatives, judiciary, all departments, commissions, 
boards, etc., $6,251,954; schools, $7,677,882; charitable institu¬ 
tions, $4,588,919; personal property tax returned to the counties, 
$3,272,632; hospitals for the insane, $2,022,385; dispensaries and 
sanatoria, $808,333; reformatories, $573,244; National Guard, 
$421,951; forestry reservations, $265,467; penitentiaries, $216,- 
747; paid to townships that abolished the work tax, $290,996; 
debt paid, and interest, $159,168; Soldiers’ Orphan Schools, 
$170,851; extinction of forest fires, $105,512; primary election 
expenses, $363,774; paid to cities and boroughs, account foreign 
fire insurance premiums, $127,684; advertising constitutional 
amendments, $134,360. 

It will be noticed that a very large proportion of the pay¬ 
ments, all of which are made under express authority of law, 
by virtue of Acts passed by the Legislature appropriating the 
money, goes into the county and local treasuries, and assists very 
materially in reducing local taxes. This has always been the 




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policy of the Republican Party—to place the burden of necessary 
taxes where it will be least felt and relieve individuals as much 
as possible. 

A COMMENDABLE PARTY RECORD. 

Our adversaries are quick to charge us with what they 
regard as unwise legislation and an occasional lapse or failure 
on the part of a public official to discharge his duty, but they 
carefully refrain from giving credit to the Republican Party for 
the many excellent laws put on the statute books, legislation of 
a remedial nature and measures intended to promote the welfare 
of the average citizen of the State. The Republican Party has 
shown how carefully it guards its integrity and is jealous of its 
good name. When occasion requires, it has cleaned house with 
a vigor that left no doubt as to its intentions. It means that 
the interests of the people shall be safeguarded; that the State 
shall receive from those entitled to pay tax all that is due, but 
not a cent more; that no money shall be paid out of the State 
Treasury except as expressly authorized by law, and that those 
interests lying closest to the people, i. e., the schools, the insane, 
the poor, the sick, and the unfortunate, shall be aided financially 
to the extent that the State is justified in giving money. With 
such a record for the past, and this is the best guarantee of what 
the Republican Party will do for the future, and with its financial 
affairs administered with honesty and fidelity, the party leaders 
confidently ask the support of voters for the election of Republi¬ 
can candidates. 

MONEYS PAID TO CHARITABLE AND PENAL IN¬ 
STITUTIONS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 


Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, Harrisburg, 

i 860 to 1909 , inc. $ 2 , 957 , 741.32 

State Hospital for Insane, Danville, 1868 to 1909 , 

inc .. 3.872,362.-9 

State Hospital for Insane, Norristown, 1870 to 

1909 , inc. 4 * 392 , 065.58 

State Hospital for Insane, Warren, 1875 to I 9°9> inc. 2 , 999,827 27 
State Asylum for Chronic Insane, Wernersviile, to 

1909 , inc. 2 , 014 , 601.36 

Western Pennsylvania Hospital for Insane, Dix- 
tnont, i 860 to 1909 , inc. 2 , 431 , 201.73 








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Homeopathic State Hospital for Insane, Allentown, 

1903 to 1909, inc. $1,401,150.62 

State Hospital for Criminal Insane, Fairview, 1906 

to 1909, inc. 110,741.30 

Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for Feeble- 
Minded and Epileptic, Spring City, 1903 to 1909, 

inc. 1,059,125.34 

Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia, i860 to 1909, inc. 4,755,632.00 
Western Penitentiary, Allegheny, i860 to 1909, inc. 2,240,727.03 
Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory, Huntingdon, 

1878 to 1909, inc. 3,139,666.65 

Pennsylvania Reform School, Morganza, 1876 to 

1909, inc. 2,138,018.43 

Cottage State Hospital, Connellsville, 1891 to 1909, 

inc. 200,678.73 

Cottage State Hospital, Philipsburg, 1891 to 1909, 

inc. 166,565.10 

Cottage State Hospital, Mercer, 1891 to 1909, inc.. 153,444.81 

Cottage State Hospital, 1887 to 1895, inc. 80,000.00 

State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Northern 
Anthracite Coal Regions, Scranton, 1898 to 1909, 

inc. 735 , 159 -Si 

State Hospital for Injured Persons, Ashland, 1879 

to 1909, inc. 1,449,948.48 

State Hospital for Injured Persons, Blossburg, 1891 

to 1909, inc. ... 165,491.90 

State Hospital for Injured Persons, Hazleton, 1887 

to 1909, inc. 507,051.30 

State Hospital for Injured Persons, Shamokin, 1908 

to 1909, inc. 43,211.22 

Home for Training in Speech of Deaf Children, 

etc., Philadelphia, 1891 to 1909, inc. 339,587.48 

Western Pennsylvania Institute for Feeble-Minded, 

Polk, 1893 to 1909, inc. 3,529,702.79 

Soldiers’ Orphan School, 1864 to 1909, inc. 13,331,068.04 

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, Erie, 1885 to 1909, inc. 1,825,968.35 
Pennsylvania State College, i860 to 1909, inc. 2,193,756.00 


Total 


$60,234,495.43 


























THE BURDEN OF STATE TAXATION 


UNDER PENNSYLVANIA’S MODEL REVENUE SYS¬ 
TEM IT IS BORNE BY THE CORPORATIONS. 


In Pennsylvania the corporations, not the people, pay the 
expense of administering the State government. The Keystone 
State is justly proud of its admirable system of taxation. No 
other Commonwealth has a taxation system so generally satis¬ 
factory from the viewpoint of the people. 

Time was when the people were taxed directly for State 
purposes, both real estate and personal property being levied upon 
for the use and support of the State, but since the advent into 
power of the Republican party this has been changed. The only 
tax for State purposes now paid by individuals is upon money at 
interest or investments, such as bonds, mortgages, etc. It will 
be interesting and instructive to take a review of some of the 
former methods of taxation, as compared with the present. 

THE STATE DEBT. 

High water mark of the debt of the State was reached in 
1843 , when the figures were $ 42 , 188 , 434 . 18 . With such a burden 
and a system of taxation that lamentably failed to produce results, 
the Republican party came into power in 1860 , when the debt 
figures were $ 37 , 968 , 847 . How this was reduced from time to 
time and finally fully provided for, so that there is a balance of 
over $ 8,000 in the Sinking Fund, above all liabilities, is told 
elsewhere in this volume. While paying off the debt the Repub¬ 
lican party has not been unmindful of the growing necessities 
of this great Commonwealth, but has legislated wisely and well 
in the way of providing funds for the public schools, for the care 
of the unfortunate of mind and body, for good roads, for State 

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bridges, for forestry reservations, for combating consumption 
and tuberculosis, and for relieving the burden of local taxation 
as far as possible. 

TAX ON REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY. 

Real estate was taxed for State purposes by the Act of 
April 9 , 1844 . That act was repealed on February 23 , 1866 . 

Horses, mules and cattle were taxed by the Act of April 29 , 
1844 . This act was repealed on March 21 , 1873 . 

Trades, occupations and professions were taxed by the Act 
of April 29 , 1844 , and this was abolished on June 2 , 1871 . 

Household furniture, gold and silver watches, and pleasure 
carriages were taxed by the Act of June 11 , 1840 , and that of 
April 29 , 1844 . On May 13 , 1887 , these taxes were abolished. 

A few figures will help one to understand how much the 
State remitted to the counties by repealing the acts above men¬ 
tioned. From the date of the repeal of each of the acts down 
to 1909 , inclusive, the grand total which the State would have 
collected by virtue of those acts was $ 497 , 218 , 142 . 27 . The 
amount for 1909 alone was $ 21 , 946 , 659 . 82 , of which the State 
waived the benefit, thus reducing taxation of individuals to that 
extent. 

PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX RETURNED. 

Since 1890 the State has returned to the counties three- 
fourths of the amount collected as tax on personal property. For 
1909 the amount returned was $ 3 , 272 , 632 , while the whole 
amount returned since 1890 aggregates $ 44 , 773 , 245 . As an aid 
in reducing local taxation, this plays no small part. A legal 
objection interferes with the return of the whole amount. 

LIQUOR LICENSE MONEY RETURNED. 

Under the present license law which went into effect in 
1888 , the State has diverted or returned to the various counties 
the "Him of $ 72 , 547 , 147 . 50 . For 1909 the amount was $ 4 , 518 , 100 . 
The loss or lack of a proportionate share of this amount would 
be very seriously felt in many boroughs and townships in the 
State. 





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GENERAL RELIEF. 

By direct appropriation for various purposes, such as edu¬ 
cational, judicial salaries, charitable institutions, bridges and 
highways, forestry reservations, primary elections, etc., the State 
has returned or remitted to the counties an aggregate almost 
beyond belief. The figures follow : 


Educational, since 1866.$155,711,693.62 

Judicial, since 1866. 24,259,464.43 

Charitable institutions, since 1866. 75,944,905.19 

Bridges and highways, since 1902. 13,130,129.28 

Forestry, since 1900. 2,549,547.75 

Primary elections, since 1907. 1,091,218.58 


The above sums, with the amounts . ^.turned or remitted by 
the State sources, indicated under appropriate headings, make 
the enormous sum of $888,517,937.99. 

ABLE REPUBLICAN MANAGEMENT. 

With these figures taken from official records can any one 
doubt the assertion that since the Republican party came into 
power and has been responsible for legislation it has consistently 
labored to reduce local taxation and tax on individual property, 
not only by direct appropriation, but by waiving, on the part of 
the State, the right to collect taxes imposed under Democratic 
rule, which taxes had become irksome and failed to meet the 
purpose? In thus wiping out the State debt, in providing ade¬ 
quate sources of revenue, and in abating or repealing odious tax 
laws, the Republican party has shown that its leaders were men 
of sagacity, skilled in statecraft and alive to the necessities of a 
great and growing Commonwealth. 

There is not a single county which does not receive from 
the State a sum far in excess of the amount it pays into the 
State Treasury, and this has been true for many years past. The 
official figures for the year 1909 for each county, with the 
balance in favor of the county, are given below: 

Statement showing amount received by the State from the 
various counties, what each county received from the State, with 
amount of balance in favor of the county for the year 1909 :— 








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Counties. 

Amount Received 
by State 
from County. 

Amount Received 
by County 
from State. 

Balance in Favor 
of County. 

Adams. 

... $31,344.85 

$166,496.22 

$135,151.37 

Allegheny. 

... 1,689,761.63 

3,346,249.19 

1,656,487.56 

Armstrong ...... 

81,991.18 

253,682.83 

171,691.65 

Beaver. 

68,637.47 

234,016.14 

165,378.67 

Bedford. 

33,338.43 

227,207.48 

193,869.05 

Berks. 

... 219,659.30 

734,899.60 

515,240.30 

Blair. 

76,154.42 

345,109.39 

268,954.97 

Bradford. 

70,166.40 

279,967.93 

209,801.53 

Bucks. 

99,998.13 

369,908.04 

269,909.91 

Butler. 

85,334.16 

270,495.71 

185,161.55 

Cambria. 

97,459.47 

446,057.74 

348,598.27 

Cameron. 

6,622.61 

54,454.95 

47,832.34 

Carbon. 

48,159.20 

195,722.31 

147,563.11 

Centre. 

36,789.42 

218,316.30 

181,526.88 

Chester. 

... 117,118.81 

500,343.24 

383,224.43 

Clarion. 

41,253.68 

178,469.56 

137,215:88 

Clearfield. 

58,413.01 

439,523.85 

381,110.84 

Clinton. 

29,114.67 

199,396.88 

170,282.21 

Columbia. 

30,926.62 

187,248.94 

156,322.32 

Crawford. 

63,205.89 

306,166.54 

242,960.65 

Cumberland.. .. 

74,532.06 

231,312.92 

156,780.86 

Dauphin. 

.. 139,495.09 

493,820.36 

354,325.27 

Delaware. 

. . 107,598.10 

434,565.28 

326,967.18 

Elk. 

17,469.24 

149,061.03 

131,591.79 

Erie. 

... *108,114.93 

417,272.45 

309,157.52 

Fayette. 

.. 115,442.56 

504,693.60 

389,251.04 

Forest. 

8,978.49 

50,220.43 

41,241.94 

Franklin. 

53,278.98 

279,972.08 

226,693.10 

Fulton. 

2,217.83 

52,434.86 

50,217.03 

Greene. 

44,790.27 

168,706.29 

123,916.02 

Huntingdon . .. 

44.171.50 

231,106.02 

186,934.52 

Indiana. 

45,356.93 

230,124.38 

184,767.45 

Jefferson. 

45,577.49 

231,470.81 

185,893.32 

Juniata. 

5,465.98 

75,747.53 

70,281.55 

Lackawanna. .. 

.. 204,112.99 

763,026.44 

558,913.45 

Lancaster. 

... 236,551.78 

724,218.25 

487,666.47 

Lawrence. 

76,398.64 

235,782.44 

159,383.80 

Lebanon . 

71,400.52 

260,434.12 

189,033.60 











































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Amount Received 


by State 

Counties. from County. 

Lehigh. 145,447.34 

Luzerne... 262,296.53 

Lycoming. 78,602.33 

McKean. 47,912.02 

Mercer. 71,934.46 

Mifflin. 14,109.79 

Monroe.. 27,773.99 

Montgomery. 247,580.07 

Montour. 12,700.55 

Northampton .... 146,075.38 

Northumberland.. 75,654.95 

Perry. 15,180.09 

Philadelphia. 4,384,573.78 

Pike. 4,880.81 

Potter. 25,143.80 

Schuylkill. 176,145.79 

Snyder. 11,601.60 

Somerset. 70,263.61 

Sullivan. 6,767.46 

Susquehanna. 19,712.58 

Tioga. 51,541.32 

Union. 20,685.62 

Venango. 65,532.38 

Warren. 39,865.48 

Washington. 137,434.89 

Wayne. 33,166.49 

Westmoreland . . . 172,680.16 

Wyoming. 7,660.61 

York...! . 159,409.54 


Amount Received 
by County 

Balance in Favor 

from State. 

of County. 

442,340.04 

296,892.70 

1,076,179.30 

813,882.77 

389,891.15 

311,288.82 

215,975.21 

168,063.19 

300,737.82 

228,803.36 

115,791.10 

101,681.31 

120,066.03 

92,292.04 

723,311.12 

475,731.05 

62,886.11 

50,185.56 

478,148.49 

332,073.11 

400,529.20 

324,874.25 

129,337.96 

114,157.87 

5,916,290.37 

1,531,716.59 

64,857.44 

59,976.63 

224,714.92 

199,571.12 

733,535.25 

557,389.46 

92,479.39 

80,877.79 

304,442.76 

234,179.15 

63,281.67 

56,514.21 

185,661.47 

165,948.89 

256,885.35 

205,344.03 

81,175.49 

60,489.87 

241,916.10 

176,383.72 

188,912.09 

149,046.61 

513,582.20 

376,147.31 

167,602.83 

134,436.34 

727,579.47 

554,899.31 

94,332.69 

86,672.08 

596,624.71 

437,215.17 


OF REVENUE. 


STATE’S SOURCES 

The major part of Pennsylvania’s immense revenue, which 
reached $29,101,183.70 in 1909, was derived from corporations. 
Probably no other State taxes its corporations as heavily as 
does Pennsylvania, but the companies have adjusted their busi¬ 
ness affairs accordingly and there is but little complaint of bur¬ 
densome taxes. The policy of the Republican party has always 
been to relieve individuals from taxation, and to require corpo- 


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rations to pay liberally for the rights and privileges they enjoy. 
The principal sources of corporate tax for 1909 were as follows : 


Capital stock . $8,815,222.29 

Loans . 2,489,108.53 

Gross receipts . 1,494,711.71 

Foreign insurance companies . 1,340,215.64 

Gross premiums . 103,593.36 

Bonus on charters . 519,017.27 

National Bank stock . 889,557.24 

State Bank stock . 110,825.54 

Trust companies .... . 1,199,350.44 


Total . $16,961,602.02 


In addition to the above there is no doubt but that corpora¬ 
tions pay a large share of the amount received by the State from 
the following sources: 

Retail and wholesale mercantile licenses, retail and whole¬ 
sale liquor licenses, brewers’ and distillers’ licenses and other 
smaller items. Taking the figures given, however, it is seen that 
a total of about $17,000,000 of a total net revenue of approxi¬ 
mately $25,000,000, or about 68 per cent., at least, was received 
from corporations. 

ABLE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP. 

The total expenses of the State government in 1909, includ¬ 
ing those for departments, boards, commissions, councils, etc., 
was $6,251,953.50. It will be readily seen that this item was 
easily met by the tax on corporations, with nearly $ 11 , 000,000 
remaining to be appropriated for schools, charitable institu¬ 
tions, etc. 

The personal property tax in 1909 (and it should be remem¬ 
bered that this is the only tax paid by individuals in this State) 
was $ 4 , 315 , 411 . 85 . There was returned to counties the sum of 
$3,272,631.97, leaving the State revenue from this source at 
$1,042,779.88. On a basis of 7,500,000 population each indi¬ 
vidual contributed toward the State’s income the sum of fourteen 
cents as an average. In return for this he received from the 
State his proportion of the amount remitted, returned and appro¬ 
priated, the total sum for 1909 being $46,506,705.81, an average 

















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for each individual of $6.20. No other party in any State can 
make a better showing than the above. This showing is due to 
wise and careful Republican leadership. 


Year. State Debt. Receipts. Expenditures. Treasurer. 

1840. .$36,168,528.10 $6,567,206.66 $7,279,120.93 A. H. Reed. 

1841.. 39,198,521.93 5,380,782.23 4,895,154.35 J. Gilmore. 

1842.. 41,787,423.62 2,780,608.40 3,337,311.52 

1843.. 42,188,434.18 3,404,434.37 3,499,144.00 

1844.. 40,835,013.60 2,331,765.55 1,847,385.15 

1845.. 40,986,393.32 3,010,062.34 3,289,028.13 

1846.. 40,789,577.00 3,529,057.28 3,529,264.67 J. R. Snowden 

1847.. 40,628,949.51 3,977,025.89 3,680,813.74 John Banks. 

1848.. 40,474,736.93 3,831,776.22 3,935,376.68 A. Plumer. 

1849.. 40,511,173.92 4,433,688.65 4,084,771.80 G. J. Ball. 

1850.. 40,775,485.42 4,338,131.51 4,569,053.94 J. M. Bickel. 

1851.. 40,114,236.39 4,570,393.93 4,780,667.53 

1852.. 41,534,875.37 7,716,552.17 7,157,920.38 

1853.. 40,378,291.00 9,486,770.08 10,144,963.73 

1854.. 40,064,516.69 5,953,670.66 5,437,159.29 Jos. Bailey. 
1855.-40,196,994.22 5,380,474.11 5,385,705.52 Eli Slifer. 

1856.. 40,117,835.25 5,378,240.35 5,379,142.22 H. S. Magraw. 

1857.. 39,881,738.22 4,690,587.84 5,407,276.79 

1858.. 39,488,243.67 4,139,778.85 3,775,857.06 

1859.. 38,638,961.07 3,826,350.14 3,879,054.81 Eli Slifer. 

1860.. 37,969,847.50 3,479,257.31 3,637,147.32 

1861.. 40,580,666.08 6,743,525.02 5,873,352.38 H. D. Moore. 

1862.. 40,448,213.82 5,211,747.63 4,590,509.25 

1863.. 39,496,596.78 4,289,451.65 4,314,964.05 W.V. McGrath 

1864.. 39,379,603.94 4,733,313.02 4,938,441.09 H. D. Moore. 

1865.. 37,467,258.06 6,219,989.67 5,788,525.16 W. H. Kemble 

1866.. 35,622,052.16 5,829,668.54 6,462,303.41 

1867.. 37,704,409.77 28,423,330.07 25,502,526.88 

1868.. 73,286,946.13 5,216,049.55 8,864,960.64 W. W. Irwin. 
1869.-32,814,540.95 5,241,711.28 4,894,806.16 R. W. Mackey 

1870.. 31,111,661.90 6,336,603.24 6,434,522.91 W. W Irwin 

1871.. 29,279,820.64 7,197,945.62 7,024,079.85 R. W Mackey 

1872.. 27,303,494.64 7,148,637.45 7,142,990.43 

1873.. 25,798,821.94 7,076,723.20 6,734,027 57 

1874.. 24,568,635.37 5,871,968.27 6,643,567.86 


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Year. State Debt. Receipts. Expenditures. Treasur-h 

1875.. 23,233,137.74 6,480,099.02 6,541,434.40 

1876.. 22,978,950.69 6,078,890.37 6,087,100.02 H. Rawle. 

1877.. 22,943,814.31 14,859,502.44 13,482,453.19 

1878.. 21,875,620.86 5,513,417.97 6,653,933.58 A. Q. Noyes. 

1879.. 22,190,668.86 7,422,363.90 6,529,063.24 

1880.. 21,561,989.65 6,720,334.47 6,820,119.49 S. Butler. 

1881.. 21,140,188.05 7,001,782.43 6,926,810.20 

1882.. 20,225,083.28 16,428,650.11 14,850,871.16 S. M. Bailey. 

1883.. 19,718,753.28 6,775,430.19 6,708,690.22 

1884.. 19,084,283.28 6,226,959.38 7,648,912.30 Wm. Livsey. 

1885.. 17,972,683.26 8,179,714.28 8,513,257.53 

1886.. 17,258,982.28 7,520,711.13 7,203,295.42 M. S. Qay. 

1887.. 15,840,471.28 7,646,147.37 7,366,763.97 Wm. Livsey. 

1888.. 14,738,921.28 8,694,060.42 7,387,860.24 Wm. B. Hart. 

1889.. 13,856,971.28 8,965,399.22 8,182,847.34 Wm. Livsey. 

1890.. 12,349,920.28 8,625,919.10 8,168,861.18 H. K. Boyer. 

1891.. 9,811,568.28 13,007,161.74 10,453,952.64 

1892.. 8,394,462.28 10,748,759.08 11,727,968.66 J.W.Morrison. 

1893.. 8,288,061.28 13,252,737.89 13,423,064.77 

1894.. 6,819,661.28 12,873,786.82 13,622,769.18 S. M. Jackson. 

1895.. 6,816,309.47 12,030,030.10 13,681,701.74 

1896.. 6,815,305.47 12,265,736.09 11,280,943.47 B.J. Haywood 

1897.. 6,815,305.47 12,844,441.67 13,043,887.34 

1898.. 6,815,299.02 13,325,120.97 13,973,803.46 J. S. Beacom. 

1899.. 6,815,299.02 15,458,316.97 15,336,838.61 

1900.. 6,815,299.02 17,494,211.78 15,453,718.90 J. E. Barnett. 

1901.. 6,815,299.02 17,727,432.46 16,669,399.05 

1902.. 374,625.32 22,947,890.65 17,787,106.19 F. G. Harris. 

1903.. 278,995.16 21,030,232,60 18,080,480.05 

1904.. 177,599.58 19,767,593.73 19,763,784.28 W. L. Mathues 

1905.. 122,958.09 24,269,119.72 27,562,961.97 

1906.. 78,146.28 25,818,924.03 26,907,407.50 W. H. Berry. 

1907.. 102,318.14 27,027,132.72 25,581,466.83 

1908.. 47,085.91 25,852,548.95 29,197,654.15 J. O. Sheatz. 

1909.. *8,117.94 29,101,183.70 30,021,773.57 

Surplus in Sinking Fund over and above amount necessary to pay ail debts. 




REPUBLICAN PARTY LABOR’S FRIEND 


IN PENNSYLVANIA, AS IN THE NATION, IT HAS 
ENACTED EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION FOR 
THE WAGE-EARNER’S ADVANCEMENT. 


The Republican Party is justified in the statement that it is 
labor's friend. Since its inception over half a century ago that 
party in every Congress has enacted legislation for the uplifting 
of labor and the bettering of conditions for all of the working 
classes. Every effective national labor law on our statute books 
has been placed there by the Republican Party. Republican 
tariff laws have protected the wage-earner of the United States 
against the cheap labor of foreign countries and wages to-day 
are from two to ten times those received abroad. Through Re¬ 
publican financial legislation the laboring men and women of 
this country have always received a full dollar for their toil 
and their savings and investments have been fully protected. 
Not only have wages constantly increased and hours of labor 
been reduced, but sanitary conditions have been constantly im¬ 
proved, and inspection and liability laws have given to our work¬ 
ingmen and women conditions and advantages better, very much 
better, than in any other country. 

LABOR LEGISLATION, REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION. 

The Republican Party in Pennsylvania, as in the nation, is 
the friend of labor. In no other State have so many beneficial 
labor laws been enacted. Throughout its control of the legislative 
affairs of Pennsylvania the Republican Party has endeavored to 
enact legislation that would protect the life and health and 
advance the welfare of all classes of wage-earners. The legis¬ 
lative records at Harrisburg present unchallenged proof of the 
statement that labor legislation in Pennsylvania is entirely Re¬ 
publican legislation. The Republican Party never has failed 

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to respond to the demands of labor for laws that would safe¬ 
guard its interests. That is why labor in Pennsylvania indorses 
the statement that the Republican Party is its friend. 

WHOLESOME LAWS FOR LABOR’S PROTECTION. 

No other branch of the State government has rendered more 
effective service than the Department of Factory Inspection. 
Under its jurisdiction are more than one million wage-earners— 
men, women and children. Enactments of Republican legisla¬ 
tures during the past six years greatly have enlarged its field 
and extended its opportunities for advancement of the laborer’s 
welfare. Without exception, the measures thus enacted were 
recommended by Republicans. Mr. J. J. Casey, in his letter of 
acceptance as a candidate of the Keystone Party v claims credit 
for the enactment of the Employers’ Liability Act. Here are 
the facts: 

In the annual report of the Chief of the Factory Inspection 
Department for 1905, that official submitted an earnest plea for 
the enactment of a liability law. It was supported by a con¬ 
vincing statement relating to the large number of distressing 
accidents reported to the Factory Inspection Department. The 
Liability Act of 1905 was the result. The bill was introduced; 
it was reported favorably by committees of House and Senate, 
and finally passed by a Republican legislature and signed by a 
Republican Governor at the instance of the Factory Inspection De¬ 
partment. From its inception it was Republican legislation. 

RECENT LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS. 

During the past four years Republican Legislatures have 
enacted legislation of the highest importance to the wage-earners. 

A law providing for the safety of persons from fire or 
panic in certain buildings is a great step in advance, as it not 
only provides for the erection of substantial fire escapes in a 
proper manner, but in addition thereto makes provisions for the 
safeguarding of persons against fire and panic by requiring the 
installation of fire-preventing and fire-extinguishing appliances. 
The provisions for maintaining proper exits, free from obstruc¬ 
tion, are excellent in every way. So, too, is the provision that 
requires buildings over two stories in height, and buildings having 
one or more galleries above the ground floor, to be protected; a 
provision that wisely changes the old law, which applied to build- 




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ings of three or more stories only. The proviso which permits 
of the erection of an internal fire escape where an outside fire 
escape cannot be erected, and the additional proviso that em¬ 
powers the Factory Inspection Department to compel the owners 
to discontinue the use or occupancy of certain buildings upon 
which fire escapes, neither internal or external, can be erected, 
are highly desirable changes in the law regulating the erection 
of fire escapes. A plenary power given that Department to 
enforce the law is a proper and necessary part of the Act. A 
section making it the duty of the owners of buildings, under 
certain conditions, to submit architectural designs and specifica¬ 
tions of their buildings to the Chief Factory Inspector for his 
concurrence has met with general approval. 

THE MOVING PICTURE MENACE. 

During the past two years the cities and boroughs have been 
invaded by moving picture concerns, many of which were a menace 
to life and property. In the absence of any definite law re¬ 
stricting their operations, the managers of these shows exhibited 
little, if any, concern for the safety of their patrons. It was 
necessary, therefore, that the Legislature should act wisely and 
promptly, and this has been done. Hereafter the moving picture 
and similar apparatus must be enclosed within fire-proof booths, 
and the buildings in which they are operated must be provided 
with proper exits and fire-preventing and fire-extinguishing ap¬ 
pliances. 

Another Act of importance provides for the health and safety 
of minors. By the wording of this Act the misleading and mis¬ 
chievous use of the terms “child” and “children” is eliminated, 
and either of those terms can be applied properly only to those 
who under the age of 14 years, and who by that Act are debarred 
from employment in any industry enumerated. A section of 
this new legislation prevents labor in certain employments known 
to be extra hazardous of all female minors and all male minors 
under the age of 18 years. Another section debars minors under 
the age of 16 years from engaging or being engaged in certain 
specified industries which, in their nature are a menace to health 
and safety, except where the menace has been removed. A 
further provision is made whereby minors over the age of 14 
years are practicaly debarred from employing themselves or froiy 


8i 


being employed by others in factories, workshops, mercantile es¬ 
tablishments, etc., where there is a lack of proper sanitation, 
proper ventilation or where the machinery and other dangerous 
appliances are 'not safeguarded according to rules and regula¬ 
tions prescribed by the Chief Factory Inspector. 

REGULATION OF CHILD LABOR. 

The provisions restricting the hours of employment for 
minors are wholesome. Ten hours a day, fifty-eight hours a 
week, together with a restriction of the working hours from 
6 o’clock in the morning until 9 o’clock at night for male minors 
under the age of 16 years, and for female minors under the 
age of eighteen years is of great benefit to the minors, and does 
not impose any hardship upon employers. The exception to 
this proviso in so far as it affects establishments which neces¬ 
sarily continue operations day and night has met with objections. 
It is but fair to state, however, that the manufacturers who in¬ 
sisted upon this exception being made a part of the Act gave 
reasons satisfactory to the Legislative Committee having the bill 
in charge. 

Through the vigilance of the Factory Inspection Depart¬ 
ment the number of children employees under the age of 16 years 
has been reduced from 48,519 to 33,489. Illegally employed 
children to the number of 14,697 were dismissed. The Depart¬ 
ment has had installed 21,242 safety guards for machinery, etc.; 
fire escapes erected upon 4,363 buildings and 71,297 boilers were 
inspected. In 1,266 establishments separate toilets for men and 
women have been furnished, and in 487 establishments provisions 
were made for dressing rooms for women. In 2,770 establish¬ 
ments better sanitation and ventilation has been provided. The 
tenement house sweatshops have been placed under the super¬ 
vision of the boards of health in all cities of the first and second 
class. 

Pennsylvania’s factory inspection service is a model of effi¬ 
ciency. 


SUPERVISION OF COAL INDUSTRY. 

Pennsylvania is without a rival as a coal-producing State. 
For more than fifty years it has had this proud distinction. 


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From a production of 12,000,000 tons in 1860, there has been 
a constant and steady increase until the production of the present 
time is over 200,000,000 tons a year, or about one-half the entire 
output of the United States, and equal to the output of Great 
Britain, the greatest of foreign coal-producing countries. 

To provide efficient supervision of this great industry upon 
which the wealth and prosperity of the State have been built, to 
conserve the interests of the operators and to throw every possible 
safeguard around the miner in his hazardous work, various laws 
from time to time have been enacted by the Republican Party, 
embodying the best thought of the mining experts of the State. 
In 1897, under the administration of Governor Daniel H. Hast¬ 
ings, the Bureau of Mines was established, the purpose of which 
was to centralize the control of mine supervision and place in 
charge of the State Mine Inspectors, an official of practical expe¬ 
rience, to enforce the laws enacted for safeguarding and protect¬ 
ing the mining interests, and particularly the lives of the miners. 
In 1903, owing to the tremendous increase in the coal production, 
the Department of Mines was created to take the place of the 
Bureau of Mines. This legislation was enacted during the admin¬ 
istration of Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker. 

INCREASE IN INSPECTION FORCE. 

In 1897 the number of inspectors was eighteen. At present 
the number is forty-one, and it is the intention of the Chief of 
the Department of Mines to recommend that the number be still 
further increased in both the anthracite and bituminous regions. 
It is important that the inspection force be large enough to give 
complete supervision to the mines, the paramount object being 
to reduce the terrible toll of life now exacted from the great 
army of more than 350,000 mine employees. The present in¬ 
spectors are all well-equipped officials, intelligent and experienced. 
Under the strict guidance and discipline of the Chief of the 
Department they look carefully after the interests of the miner. 

In keeping with the desire that has always animated the Chief 
of the Department to better the conditions under which the 
miner is working, legislation at different times has been proposed 
with a view to lessening the hazard in this dangerous occupation. 
It has been a matter of pride to keep in advance of all other 


States and countries in throwing about the mine workers every 
possible safeguard and protection. 

The question of child labor has also been given much atten¬ 
tion. The Department of Mines always has made a determined 
effort to enforce the child labor laws. In fact, the protection of 
the miner and the miner’s children has been the constant aim 
of the State mine officials. 

TRAGEDIES OF THE MINES. 

The tragic phase of the mining industry is the loss of 
human life and the injury of mine employees, with its attendant 
deprivation and suffering among widows and orphans. To bring 
partial relief to these people the Department of Mines has sug¬ 
gested that a tax of three-fourths of a cent a ton be placed 
upon the bituminous production, and a cent and a half a ton on 
the anthracite production, to provide a fund ample for the care 
of injured persons and those dependent upon them. 

The Department of Mines has developed in efficiency and 
importance with the remarkable development of the coal industry. 
It is to the credit of the Republican party that it has retained 
as Chief of this great State Department a man who has con¬ 
ducted its affairs in such a way as to place it at the head of the 
mining departments of the country and to elicit from mining 
experts the world over words of commendation. 

The mining laws of Pennsylvania enacted by Republican 
legislatures require the owner, operator or superintendent of 
every mine to provide and maintain sufficient ventilation to 
carry off and render harmless the noxious and dangerous gases 
generated in the mines. The ventilation in slope mines is effected 
by an inlet and an outlet. If the inlet comes down the slope a 
second opening is made at another point where the fan is 
attached, which creates a vacuum and so facilitates circulation. 
The law requires a fixed quantity of not less than 150 cubic 
feet per minute for each person working in the lift. It is regu¬ 
lated by doors erected across gangways and other paths of air 
current, so' that each working is provided with the necessary 
supply. In order to carry the air to the face of the chamber, 
new cross-cuts must be driven through the pillar at intervals of 
30 feet. When a new one is driven, the old one is walled up 
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SAFEGUARDING MINERS’ INTERESTS. 

Along with the development of the coal industry of Penn¬ 
sylvania there has been ever-increasing attention given to the 
safety and welfare of the mine workers. Individual effort has 
been seconded by State legislation, until to-day we possess not 
only the most modern machinery and efficient appliances for 
producing coal, but we have surrounded this arduous and dan¬ 
gerous occupation with every safeguard and convenience that 
an intelligent liberality could suggest. 

The effort to raise the standard of intelligence among the 
mining communities and to afford opportunity for moral and 
mental improvement, has been continuous from the time the 
industry first assumed proportions of magnitude that made it a 
factor in our economic life. Higher wages, shorter hours, edu¬ 
cational advantages, hospitals for the injured, and relief funds 
for the needy, all have been made the subject of thought and 
action by the individual and the State. 

The Chief of the Department of Mines receives his appoint¬ 
ment from the Governor. The incumbent is an intelligent, scien¬ 
tific miner. He has had practical experience in the mines and 
for many years was a mine inspector in the anthracite region. 
He therefore possesses a thorough understanding of the duties 
and responsibilities of his position. 

NATIONAL LABOR LEGISLATION. 

This legislation directly in the interest of labor was enacted 
at the recent session of the Sixty-first Congress: 

“1. Requiring common carriers to report all accidents to 
the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

“2. Compelling railroads, under penalty, to equip their cars 
with uniform safety appliances. 

j‘3. Amending the employers’ liability act so that suit may 
be brought at the residence of the plaintiff and in the State 
courts. 

“4. Appointing a commission to investigate the matter of 
employers’ liability and workmen’s compensation. 

“5. Providing for the establishment in the Department of 
the Interior of a bureau of mines, and appropriating the sum 
of $310,000 to carry on the work. 


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“6. Providing for an eight-hour day in the construction of 
battleships, colliers and other vessels for the navy.” 

PENNSYLVANIA LABOR LEGISLATION. 

Here is a partial list of laws enacted by the Republican 
Party for the benefit of the working men and women of 
this State, many of which have been strengthened by the 
enactment of amendments, until to-day the labor laws of 
Pennsylvania are accepted as models for labor legislation by 
other States:— 

An act to exempt sewing machines belonging to seamstresses in this 
Commonwealth from levy aQd sale on execution or distress. ( Session 
1869, P. L., page 69.) 

An act for the better regulation and ventilation of mines, and for the 
protection of the lives of the miners in Schuylkill County. ( Session 1869, 
P. L., page 852.) 

An act providing for the safety and health of persons employed in coal 
mines. (Session 1870, P. L., page 3.) 

Supplement making neglect a misdemeanor. • (Session 1876, P. L., page 
130.) 

An act for the preservation of the records of the inspection of •mines 
in the mining districts of Schuylkill and Luzerne, embracing the anthracite 
coal region of Pennsylvania. (Session 1870, P. L., page 50.) 

An act lor the regulation and ventilation of coal mines in Mercer 
County. (Session 1870, P. L., page 1256 .) 

An act to secure the laborers a lien for their labor in the county of 
Centre. (Session 1871, P. L., page 891.) 

An act for the better protection of the wages of mechanics, miners, 
laborers and others. (Session 1872, P. L. } page 47.) 

An act to provide for the establishment of a Bureau of Statistics on the 
subject of labor and for other purposes. (Session 1872, P. L., page 59.) 

An act to relieve laborers, workingmen and journeymen from certain 
prosecutions and indictments for conspiracy under the criminal laws of this 
Commonwealth. (Session 1872, P. L., page 1175 •) 

Supplement construing certain sections. (Session 1876, P. L., page 45.) 

An act to protect miners in the bituminous coal regions of this Com¬ 
monwealth. (Session 1873, P. L., page 404.) 

An act in relation to suits for wages, preventing stay of execution on 
judgments obtained for one hundred dollars or less. (Session 1874, P • L., 
page 145 •) 

An act to aid in the erection and maintenance of the Anthracite Hos¬ 
pital of Pennsylvania. (Session 1874, P. L., page 219.) 

An act fixing a common basis from which to calculate the earnings of 
miners or persons working in coal mines. (Session 1875, P. L., page 38.) 




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An act providing the meahs of securing the health and safety of per¬ 
sons employed in the bituminous coal mines of Pennsylvania. ( Session 
1877, P. L., page 56.) 

An act relative to the employment of females in hotels, taverns, saloons 
and eating houses, or other places, for the sale of intoxicating and other 
drinks, and the penalty for the violation thereof. ( Session 1878, P. L., 
Page 9.) 

An act fixing the standard weight of a bushel of bituminous coal in this 
Commonwealth. ( Session 1878, P. L., page 67.) 

An act to enable laborers to secure and collect their pay for work done 
in and about the stocking of saw logs. ( Session 1879, P- page 176.) 

An act to provide proper means of conveyance of persons injured in 
and about the mines to their homes. ( Session 1881, P. L., page 17 .) 

An act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about coal 
mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, the 
payment of their wages at regular intervals, and in lawful money of the 
United States. ( Session 1881, P. L., page 147 .) 

An act to authorize the creation and to provide for the regulation of 
voluntary tribunals to adjust disputes between employers and employed in 
the iron, steel, glass, textile fabrics and coal trades. ( Session 1883, P. L., 
page 15.) 

An act to prevent the employment of female labor in and about the coal 
mine and the manufactories thereof in the State of Pennsylvania. ( Session 
1885, P. L. } page 202.) 

An act relating to bituminous coal mines and providing for the lives, 
health, safety and welfare of persons employed therein. ( Session 1883, 
P. L., page 205.) 

An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and 
about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and 
preservation of property connected therewith. ( Session 1883, P. L., page 
218.) 

An act for the preservation of the health of female employees in manu¬ 
facturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments. (Session 1887, P. L., 
page 7.) 

An act to limit the hours of labor of conductors, drivers and employees 
of horse, cable and electric railways. ( Session 1887 , P. L., page 13.) 

An act to secure to laborers within this commonwealth the benefit of 
the exemption laws of this Commonwealth and to prevent assignment of 
claims for the purpose of securing their collection against laborers outside 
of this Commonwealth. (Session 1887, P. L., page 164.) 

An act to prohibit the employment of any child under the age of twelve 
years by any person, persons, firms, companies, associations or corpora¬ 
tions, to do any work in any mill, manufactory or mine, or any work 
pertaining thereto. (Session 1887, P. L., page 287 .) 

An act to provide for the examination of miners in the anthracite region 
of this Commonwealth and to prevent the employment of incompetent per¬ 
sons as miners in the anthracite coal mines. (Session 1889, P L page 
142.) 


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An act to regulate the employment and provide for the safety of 
women and children in mercantile industries and manufacturing establish¬ 
ments, and to provide for the appointment of inspectors to enforce the 
same, and other acts providing for the safety or regulating the employment 
of said persons. ( Session 1889, P- L ., page 243.) 

An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and 
about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania and for the protection and 
preservation of property connected therewith. ( Session 1891, P. L., page 
176.) 

An act to prohibit mining and manufacturing corporations from en¬ 
gaging in the business of carrying on stores known as company stores or 
general supply, stores. ( Session 1891, P. L., page 236.') 

An act to protect the life and limbs of those employed in the construc¬ 
tion of new buildings in this Commonwealth. ( Session 1893, P. L. } page 
4 1 -) 

An act to authorize corporations organized for profit under the laws 
of Pennsylvania to make allowances or pensions to employees for faithful 
and long continued service, who in such service have become old, infirm or 
disabled. (Session 1893, P. L., page 42.) 

An act relating to bituminous coal mines and providing for the lives, 
health, safety and welfare of persons employed therein. ( Session 1893, 
P. L., page 52.) 

An act to establish boards of arbitration to settle all questions of wages 
and other matters of variance between capital and labor. ( Session 1893, 
P. L., page 102.) 

An act to regulate the employment and provide for the safety of women 
and children in manufacturing establishments, mercantile industries, 
laundry or renovating establishments, and to provide for the appointment 
of inspectors to enforce the same, and other acts provided for the safety 
or regulating the employment of said persons. (Session 1893, P. L., page 
276.) 

An act to regulate the employment and provide for the safety of per¬ 
sons employed in tenement houses and shops where clothing, cigarettes, 
cigars and certain other articles are made, or partially made, and to pro¬ 
vide for the appointment of inspectors to enforce the same, and to provide 
for the safety and regulating the employment of said persons. (Sessions 
1893, P. L., page 34 •) 

An act to provide for the adoption of trade-mark, labels, symbols or 
private stamps by incorporated association or union of working men, and 
to regulate the same. (Session 1893, P. L., page 95.) 

Supplement construing and amending the same. ( Session 1901, P. L. } 
page 114 •) 

An act providing that none but citizens of the United States shall be 
employed in any capacity in the erection, enlargement or improvement of 
any public building or public work within this Commonwealth. (Session 
1893, P . L., page 269.) 




An act to regulate the employment and provide for the health and 
safety of persons employed where clothing, cigarettes, cigars and certain 
other articles are made or partially made, and that certain articles be made 
under clean and healthful conditions. ( Session 18971 P • A., page 4 

An act to protect employees of corporations in their right to form, join 
or belong to labor organizations by prescribing penalties for any interfer¬ 
ence therewith. ( Session 1897, P. L., page 116 .) 

An act to prevent the wearing of the badge or button of any labor or 
fraternal organization by other than members, and fixing a penalty for 
the same. ( Session 1897, P. L., page 139 -) 

An act to authorize labor claimants in certain cases to take joint appeals. 
(Session 1897, P. L., page I 54 -) 

An act regulating the employment of foreign born unnaturalized male 
persons over twenty-one years of age, and providing a tax on the employ¬ 
ers of such persons, and prescribing a penalty for violation of the pro¬ 
visions of said act, and directing the manner of collecting the same, and 
providing that the amount of such tax may be deducted from the wages 
of persons affected by the provisions thereof. ( Session 1897, P. L., page 
166.) 

An act requiring the weighing of bituminous coal before screening 
and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. ( Session 1897, P. L., 
page 286.) 

An act to protect the lives and limbs of miners from the dangers re¬ 
sulting from incompetent miners working in the anthracite coal mines of 
this Commonwealth, and to provide for the examination of persons seek¬ 
ing employment as miners in the anthracite region, and to prevent the em¬ 
ployment of incompetent persons as miners in anthracite coal mines, and 
providing penalties for the violation of the same. .(Session 1897, P. L., 
page 287.) 

An act to regulate the hours of labor of mechanics, working men and 
laborers in the employ of the State, or municipal corporations therein, or 
otherwise engaged on public works. (Session 1877, P. L., page 148 .) 

An act to amend the 10 th Section of an act entitled “An act to provide 
for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite 
coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of 
property connected therewith,” approved the 2 d day of June, A. D. 1891 , 
providing that self-acting doors are used. (Session 1899, P. L., page 65 .) 

An act providing that all establishments, mercantile industries, laun¬ 
dries, renovating works or printing offices shall provide for the safety of 
men, women and children m hotels, school buildings, etc., by requiring 
proper fire escapes. (Session 1901, P. L., page 322.) 

An act relating to anthracite mines and providing for the care and life 
and attention of employees injured in and about said mines. (Session 
1901, P. L., page 342 .) 

An act to tax all orders, checks, dividers, coupons, pass-books or other 
papers representing wages or earnings of an employee, not paid in cash to 
the employee or member of his family; to provide for a report to the 


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Auditor-General of the same, and for the failure to make report. ( Session 
1901, P. L., page 596.) 

An act to provide for the acceptance of the property of the Lackawanna 
Hospital at Scranton to be used as a State hospital for the northern an¬ 
thracite coal regions of Pennsylvania. ( Session 1901, P. Lpage 775.) 

An act prohibiting the discharge from public positions of Union soldiers. 

(Session 1897, P- L., page 106.) 

An act amending the mine law, increasing the number of inspectors for 
the better protecting of the life and health of the anthracite miners. 

(Session 1901, P. L., pages 535 and 541.) 

An act to provide a miners’ home for old crippled and helpless em¬ 
ployees of the coal mines of Pennsylvania. ( Session 1903, P. L., pages 
248-250.) 

An act appropriating $5,000 to cover preliminary expenses for a miners’ 
home or homes. ( Session 1905, P. L. } page 542.) 

An act regulating the employment of children in and about any anthra¬ 
cite coal mine or colliery, prohibiting the employment of any persons under 
the age of sixteen years. ( Session 1905, P. L., pages 344-350 .) 

Resolution, That the Secretary of Internal Affairs be and he is hereby 
authorized to have published each year in his annual report on the mining 
industry a copy of the laws regulating mining in both anthracite and 
bituminous regions of Pennsylvania. ( Session 1895, P. L., page 647.) 

An act establising a Bureau of Mines in the Department of Internal 
Affairs of Pennsylvania, defining its purpose and authority, providing for 
the appointment of a Chief of said Bureau and assistants, and fixing their 
salaries and expenses. ( Session 1897, P. L., page 279.) 

An act for the better protection of employees in and about the coal 
mines, by preventing mine superintendents, mine foremen and assistants 
from receiving or soliciting any sum of money, or other valuable consid¬ 
eration, from men while in their employ, and providing a penalty for 
violation of the same. ( Session 1897, P. L., page 157-) 

An act to amend Article IX, Section 1, of an act entitled, “An act to 
provide for the health and the safety of persons employed in and about 
the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and 
preservation of property connected therewith,” approved June second, one 
thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. Also to amend Section 17 of an 
act entitled, “An act relating to bituminous coal mines and providing for 
the lives, health, safety and welfare of persons employed therein. (Ses- 
sion 1903, P. L., pages 359~36o.) 

An act increasing the number of mine inspectors in the anthracite min¬ 
ing region. ( Session 1905, P. L-, pages 363-368-) 

An act to provide for the health and safety of minors in certain employ¬ 
ments by regulating the ages at which said minors may be employed, their 
hours of employment, their protection against injury, and to prescribe rules 
for the obtaining of employment certificates, and providing penalties for 
violation of the provisions thereof. (Session 1909, P. L., page 283.) 








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An act to provide for the health and safety of minors in bituminous 
coal mines and anthracite collieries or breakers, by regulating the ages at 
which said minors may be employed, their hours of employment, and to 
prescribe rules for the obtaining of employment certificates, and providing 
penalties for violation of the provisions thereof. (Session 1909, P. L., 
Page 375 -) 

AN ACT 

To repeal an act entitled, “An act to provide payment to the miner for all 
clean coal mined by him,” approved the thirteenth day of June, one 
thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, which reads as follows:— 
“Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the passage of this 
act, all individuals, firms and corporations engaged in mining coal in this 
Commonwealth, who, instead of dumping all the cars that some from the 
mine into a breaker or chutes, shall switch out one or more of the cars, 
for the purpose of examining them and determining the actual amount of 
slate or refuse by removing said slate or refuse from the car, and who 
shall, after so doing, wilfully neglect to allow the miner in full for all 
clean coal left after the refuse, dirt or slate is taken out at the same rate 
paid at the mine for clean coal, less the actual expense of removing said 
slate or refuse, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

“Section 2. That any individual, firm or corporation t as aforesaid, vio¬ 
lating the provisions of this act, upon suit being brought and conviction 
had, shall be sentenced by the court to pay a fine not more than one hun¬ 
dred dollars ($100.00), and to make restitution by paying to the miner the 
amount to which, under this act, he would be entitled for the coal mined 
by him, and for which he was not paid,” approved the thirteenth day of 
June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, be and the same is 
hereby repealed. (Session /pop, P. L., page 423.) 


THE FARMER AND POLITICS 


WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN PENNSYL¬ 
VANIA HAS SUPPORT OF THE 
RURAL VOTER. 


It has been stated by veteran politicians that the rural voter 
is better informed on the issues pending in a campaign, that he 
devotes greater and more painstaking thought to the things that 
must be settled at the polls than his city brother. That is why 
an overwhelming majority of the farmers of this country vote 
the Republican ticket. They know that under Democratic admin¬ 
istration they have not been prosperous and that they have been 
under Republican administration. It is not necessary to remind 
any farmer of the dismal-years of Democratic tariff legislation. 
This year there are more potent reasons than ever before for the 
farmers’ support of the Republican party. No other class of 
persons in the United States is so prosperous as they are. Their 
prosperity since the return of the Republican party to power 
thirteen years ago has been astounding. It is a matter of history 
that rural prosperity and Republican rule are coincident. 

The farmers and dairymen of Pennsylvania are entirely 
justified in their endorsement of the Republican party and its 
principles. Effective legislation has protected their interests and 
an efficient State Department of Agriculture has been adminis¬ 
tered solely with a view to their advancement. 

STEADY INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES. 

Since the creation of the Department of Agriculture in 1895, 
the Legislature has appropriated nearly $2,000,000 for that 
branch of the State government. Each year its work has been 
extended, and in response .to the demand of the farming interests 
the appropriations steadily have been increased. The annual 
expenditures foj the department are presented by these tables: 

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APPROPRIATIONS MADE TO THE DEPARTMENT 
OF AGRICULTURE OF PENNSYLVANIA 
FROM 1895 TO 1909 INCLUSIVE. 

DEPARTMENT OF DAIRY AND FOOD 


AGRICULTURE. BUREAU. 

1895. $ 57 , 583-33 $ 33 ,ooo-oo 

1897. 67,000.00 33,000.00 

1899. 67,000.00 33,000.00 

1901. 72,000.00 58,000.00 

1903. 91,200.00 59,200.00 

1905. 90,000.00 174,800.00 

1907. 196,830.00 176,300.00 

1909. 276,540.00 189,800.00 


Total .$9i8,i53-33 $757,100.00 


LEGISLATION FOR THE FARMER. 

The enforcement of the provisions of the law regulating the 
manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers has been of 
inestimable value to the farmers of Pennsylvania. The amount 
expended by farmers of this State for fertilizers is from 
$5,000,000 to $6,000,000 annually, and while most fertilizer 
manufacturers are honest men, some are not. 

The Act of March 25, 1901, regulating the manufacture and 
sale of commercial fertilizers was supplanted by the Act of May 
1, 1909. One object of the Legislature in passing this latter Act 
was to prohibit the use in the manufacture of commercial fer¬ 
tilizers of certain materials such as hoof, horn, wool-waste, etc., 
that contain nitrogen in a form that is not readily available when 
applied to the land, without an explicit statement of the fact; 
said statement to be conspicuously affixed to every package 
of such ferilizer or manure, and to accompany and go with 
every lot, parcel or package of the same. This single item of 
legislation is worth many thousands of dollars to the farmers. 

The last General Assembly also passed a bill making it 
unlawful for manufacturers of fertilizers to use the word “bone” 
as a part of the brand name of any fertilizer unless the phos¬ 
phoric acid contained in such fertilizer shall be the product of 
pure animal bone. 

BOGUS FERTILIZERS BARRED. 

During the period covered by the present Republican admin¬ 
istration 9,913 samples of commercial fertilizer were collected in 













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various sections of the State by the agents of the Agricultural 
Department, of which 4,047 were analyzed and the results pub¬ 
lished in Department Bulletins for the information of the farm¬ 
ers. In all cases where violations of the law were so apparent as 
to render conviction possible, information against offenders was 
made, resulting in twenty-seven prosecutions and the collection 
of $653.74 in fines and costs which was paid into the State 
Treasury. 

The rapid increase of our population, as well as business, 
especially in the mining and manufacturing districts of the State, 
in recent years has increased the demand for horses, mules, dairy 
cows and all the meat producing animals to such an extent that 
the farmers have not been able to produce a sufficient amount of 
grain to meet the requirements of these animals. This has led to 
a large sale of what is known as “commercial feeding stuffs,” 
which are made up principally of the by-products resulting from 
the manufacture of flours, breakfast foods, syrups, beer, dis¬ 
tilled liquors, etc. 

In order that farmers and other feeders of live stock might 
be able to compound rations for their animals containing the 
proper elements of nutrition in their correct proportion, and at 
the same time reduce the possibility of fraud in the manufacture 
of such feeds to a minimum, the Act of April 25, 1901, was 
passed. 

INSPECTION OF FEEDING PRODUCTS. 

Subsequently the Acts of 1907 and 1909 were passed, each 
of which was regarded as an improvement upon the original Act. 
By the enforcement of the last two Acts by the Agricultural 
Department a great improvement has been secured in the feeding 
stuffs now being sold in the State, and some of the adulterated 
feeds formerly sold have been entirely driven from our markets. 

Since the beginning of the present administration up to the 
first of August, 1910, 4,106 samples of feeding stuffs, 1,223 of 
Paris green, and 743 of linseed oil have been gathered up in 
different sections of the State by the agents of the department, 
and the work of analyzing these samples and preparing bulletins 
for publication, showing the results, has been actively continued. 

Prosecutions instituted for the violation of the Feeding Stuffs 
Act within the period covered by the present State administra- 



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tion resulted in the collection by the department of $7,903.15 in 
fines and costs, which were paid into the State Treasury. 

BUREAU OF FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. 

The Bureau of Farmers’ Institutes may be regarded as the 
right arm of the Agricultural Department. Through this bureau 
the college is brought to the farmer and results of experiments 
carried on in all the States for the advancement of agriculture 
are brought to his attention by scientific men, while instruction 
in methods is given by practical tillers of the soil who have 
proved their ability to instruct by the success they have achieved 
in the employment of the methods they advocate. The present 
administration has shown its appreciation of the work of this 
bureau by the approval of the increased appropriation provided 
by the last General Assembly for this important work. 

The movable school is a feature of the institute work that 
is new and that is greatly appreciated by the tillers of the soil 
who are constantly seeking for better methods and more light. 

During the period covered by the present administration 
1,612 institutes were held, attended by 611,596 persons. The 
number of movable schools conducted under the auspices of the 
bureau was thirty-seven, attended by 28,879 persons, who regis¬ 
tered as pupils. 

In addition to this work lecturers of the bureau during this 
period addressed harvest home meetings, at which more than 
100,000 persons were in attendance. 

BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY. 

No other branch of the Agricultural Department has been 
more fruitful of good results to the farmer than the Bureau 
of Economic Zoology. 

During the period covered by the present State administra¬ 
tion the agents of that bureau have made 117,403 orchard inspec¬ 
tions to determine the presence of San Jose scale and other 
pests, and 1,981 public demonstrations of the methods of pruning 
and spraying fruit trees to insure best results in fruit production 
and disease and pest destruction, in connection with which 1,426 
lectures were delivered, explanatory of the importance of the 
work and the methods exhibited for its accomplishment. 


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Bulletins of timely information for farmers and fruit grow¬ 
ers. have been issued from the Bureau monthly, and the press 
bulletins have appeared regularly in the rural papers of every 
county of the State since May 4, 1909. 

EFFECTIVE PURE FOOD LAWS. 

With the rapid increase of population there necessarily 
came a change in the methods of food preparation and the manu¬ 
facture of food products, unknown a quarter of a century ago, 
has become a necessity. With these manufactures came the food 
dopers, adulterators and poisoners. 

This state of affairs led to the enactment of laws regulating 
the manufacture of food commodities, which are administered 
by the Dairy and Food Commissioner. 

The importance of the work assigned to the Dairy and Food 
Division is unparalleled. The Legislature of 1909 passed these 
measures, which were signed by Governor Stuart: 

The Act of May 13 , 1909 , known as the ‘‘Murphy Food Act,” 
provides that it shall be unlawful to sell any article of food 
which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the 
Act. 

The Act of March 24, 1909, known as the “Milk and Cream 
Act,” provides for the protection of the public health and the 
prevention of fraud and deception by regulating the sale of 
milk, skimmed milk and cream. 

The Act of March 11, 1909, known as the “Egg Act,” is 
an act for the protection of the public health by prohibiting the 
sale of eggs unfit for food, as therein defined, and prohibiting 
the use of such eggs in the preparation of food products. 

ADULTERATED AND MISBRANDED FOODS. 

The Act “Prohibiting the Manufacture and Sale of Adul¬ 
terated Non-Alcoholic Beverages,” approved March 11, 1909, is 
an act relating to non-alcoholic drinks, defining the same and 
prohibiting the manufacture or sale of any adulterated or mis¬ 
branded non-alcoholic drinks. 

The Act “Prohibiting the Sale of Adulterated Ice Cream,” 
approved March 24, 1909, is an act for the protection of the 
public health and to prevent fraud and deception in the manu¬ 
facture and sale. 



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The Act “To Prevent Fraud in the Manufacture of Lard 
or Its Substitutes,” approved March 11, 1909, is an act to pro¬ 
tect the public health and prevent fraud and deception in the 
manufacture or sale of lard, lard substitutes, imitation lard and 
lard compounds. 

OFFENDERS VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTED. 

The number of food samples of all classes, including soft 
drinks, confections and condiments, analyzed during the present 
State administration, was 23,571. Total number of cases prose¬ 
cuted and terminated was 2,093, of which 861 were cases under 
the Oleomargarine Act. The amount of fines collected on 
account of these cases was $105,964.84, of which $63,243.44 was 
received from oleomargarine fines. In addition to these fines for 
violations of the oleomargarine law, eleven defendants were given 
jail sentences ranging from twenty days to six months. The 
amount of fees received from oleomargarine licenses was 
$176,410.14, and from renovated butter licenses, $5,385.84. The 
total receipts from all sources were $ 287 , 760 . 82 . The total dis¬ 
bursements for the same period were $279,049.37. These figures 
show that the Bureau was $8,711.45 more than self-sustaining. 

FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIVE STOCK. 

The Veterinary Bureau has specific charge of legislation 
enacted for the protection of the health of domestic animals. 

The work that is being done at the farm in Delaware County, 
purchased by the State in 1903 and enlarged by an additional 
purchase of land in 1907, is of inestimable value to the stock 
breeders of the State and country at large. The experiments 
made for the demonstration of the possibility of procuring a 
preventive from bovine tuberculosis and the producing of healthy 
ottspring from stock infected with this disease, which has been 
carried forward at this institution, is attracting world-wide 
attention. 

The examination of animals infected with communicable 
diseases, such as tuberculosis, glanders and contagious lymphan¬ 
gitis in horses, etc., and their destruction by agents of the Bureau, 
according to the provisions of the laws in such cases provided, 
is a great boon to Pennsylvania farmers and stock owners. 


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PROMPT ACTION PROVES EFFECTIVE. 

The favorable attitude of the present administration to the 
work of this bureau has been shown by the approval by the 
Governor of every measure passed by the General Assembly to 
increase the efficiency of the work, and particularly by the active 
interest he took in the suppression of the dreaded cattle disorder, 
known as “Foot and Mouth Disease,” which broke out in 
November, 1908 . When the Secretary of Agriculture in com¬ 
pany with the State Veterinarian called upon the Governor and 
made known to him that this disease had appeared in the State 
and acquainted him with the fact that the funds necessary for 
carrying on such an effort for its speedy extermination as was 
necessary were not at hand, he said: “This is war, and extraor¬ 
dinary means must be resorted to. Go ahead with the work and 
I will see that the necessary provision to meet expenses shall be 
made by the General Assembly soon to convene.” With this 
loyal support on the part of the executive, the Veterinary Bureau, 
with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry, 
was able to stamp out the disease, although it made its appear¬ 
ance in fifteen counties of the State within a period of twenty- 
four weeks. 

Two new diseases never before diagnosed in America 
recently have been diagnosed by the Veterinary Bureau. The 
diagnosis of these diseases and the prompt placing of affected 
animals under quarantine restrictions was a great help to the 
live stock industry of the Commonwealth. The diseases referred 
to are contagious lymphangitis in horses and chronic bacterial 
dysentery affecting cattle. 

UNSOUND MEAT CONDEMNED. 

There have been 3,742 slaughter-house and 5,167 meat- 
market inspections made under the provisions of the Act of 
Assembly approved May 25, 1907, “To protect the public health 
by providing for the prevention of the preparation and sale of 
meat and food products which are unsound, unhealthful, etc.” 
Animals to the number of 411,914 were examinedTefore slaugh¬ 
ter, of which 2,304 were held in quarantine for further examina¬ 
tion. Half carcasses to the number of 47,901 were inspected, 
and 1,520 carcasses condemned. There have been examined 



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l,693,038j4 pounds of meat, of which 391,135j4 pounds were 
condemned. Out of 321,714 pounds of meat products examined, 
3,726 pounds were condemned. 

Legal proceedings were instituted in ten cases, all terminat¬ 
ing successfully. 

During the interval under consideration, 35,883 cattle from 
3,400 herds were examined for tuberculosis, 5,416 animals for 
glanders, 382 horses for epizootic lymphangitis, and 3,789 animals 
for rabies. 

In the case of anthrax, 3,458 animals were examined and 
vaccinated, and 4,376 cattle were examined and vaccinated on 
account of blackleg. 

There were 2,052 swine examined for hog cholera, and 662 
animals, mostly horses, were examined for mange. Where 
necessary for the farmers’ protection, quarantines were estab¬ 
lished. 

Dairy cows or meat cattle for breeding purposes to the 
number of 57,967 were inspected and tested with tuberculin 
either before importation into Pennsylvania or after the arrival 
at destination. 

It was necessary where individual quarantines were not 
sufficient to prevent the further spread of rabies to establish 
general quarantines against dogs in seventy-five localities. 

Local Boards of Health to the number of twenty-two made 
application and received co-operation in the inspection of the 
sources of milk supplies for the purpose of protecting such sup¬ 
plies from contamination. 

BULLETINS FOR THE FARMER. 

The Secretary of Agriculture, who is himself a practical 
farmer, endeavors to keep in close touch with all progressive 
agricultural movements so as to be able, as nearly as possible, 
to anticipate the trend of such movements in the State and to be 
prepaied to assist the same by the publications of bulletins 
giving expert information upon such subjects as appear to be 
attracting the attention of the farmer. 

Four hundred and ninety-five thousand copies of such 
special bulletins have been distributed, covering forty-six dif¬ 
ferent subjects, since January i, 1907. 


SAFEGUARDS HEALTH OF PEOPLE 


REMARKABLE RESULTS ACCOMPLISHED BY SAN¬ 
ITARY DEPARTMENT ATTRACTING ATTEN¬ 
TION OF THE NATION. 


The State owes its citizens no more important duty than to 
safeguard their health. Pennsylvania Republican administra¬ 
tions by adequate legislation and generous appropriations have 
made possible the leading position our State now occupies in 
sanitary work. 

The care of the tuberculous poor in Pennsylvania has 
received the State government’s special attention and the com¬ 
prehensive campaign against this disease being waged by the 
Department of Health, under the able direction of Dr. Samuel 
G. Dixon, the Commissioner, is winning praise the country over 
because it is accomplishing remarkable results. 

The Republican State platform of 1906 declared that “mod¬ 
ern science has demonstrated that consumption is a curable 
disease, and that this great scourge of the human race, at once 
so communicable and so deadly, may, by resort to proper treat¬ 
ment and by education in the laws of health, be almost wiped 
out .as the terror of mankind. It is the duty of the State to do 
its part towards this beneficent end, and we hereby commit the 
Republican party to the establishment and support of dispen¬ 
saries, hospitals and sanatorium’s for the treatment of the con¬ 
sumptive poor.” 

THE SANATORIUM AT MONT ALTO. 

Governor Stuart and the Republican Legislature of 1907 
made good this pledge. An appropriation of $600,000 enabled 
the State Department of Health to build and maintain a model 
sanatorium at Mont Alto, and a further appropriation of $400,000 
wa< provided the department for the establishing and main- 

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tenance of free dispensaries for tuberculosis throughout the 
State. 

As soon as the appropriation had been made for Mont Alto 
work was begun at once and hundreds of patients were soon 
winning their way back to health and life in the pure mountain 
air and fragrant pines. So successfully carried forward was the 
State’s tuberculosis work that the Republican Legislature of 1909, 
with the approval of Governor Stuart, provided still more ade¬ 
quately for the unfortunate consumptive poor. By that body 
$2,000,000 was set aside for this worthy cause. 

Thus supported the work has been pushed forward vigor¬ 
ously, so that up to June 30, 1910, 3,301 patients had been 
admitted to the Mont Alto Sanatorium. Many a patient has 
been discharged with the disease arrested. Hundreds have been 
benefited and many more whose cases were too far advanced 
to hope for much aid, have, however, been made comfortable 
and have been provided with a home where they would not be a 
source of danger to others. The present capacity of the Mont 
Alto Sanatorium is nearly 800. 

DISPENSARIES CARE FOR THOUSANDS. 

A second State sanatorium for tuberculosis is now being 
erected on the beautiful tract of land at Cresson, which Andrew 
Carnegie so generously presented to the Commonwealth for this 
purpose, and a third sanatorium will be constructed in the eastern 
end of the State near Hamburg. 

One hundred and fifteen free dispensaries, at as many 
points throughout Pennsylvania, have been established by the 
State Department of Health to care for the tuberculous poor 
who for one reason or another cannot leave their homes to go 
to a sanatorium for treatment. Up to June 30, 1910, 32,247 poor 
sufferers had received the skilled medical aid and the attention 
of trained nurses which these dispensaries provide. 

The influence for good that these institutions are exerting, 
not only in alleviating suffering, but in preventing the spread of 
this dread “White Plague,” is incalculable. Moreover, as the 
trained nurse from the dispensary goes into the home of the 
poor patient and teaches the family how to guard against tuber¬ 
culous infection, she is constantly helping in many other ways to 


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better the general conditions in that household. The nurse’s 
advice as to how the maximum amount of nutritious food can 
be secured for the minimum amount of money is a message of 
life in many a poor home. 

The death rate from tuberculosis in this State has fallen from 
134 to 120 per one hundred thousand of population in four 
years. This means a saving of one thousand lives annually. 

The care of tuberculosis is only one phase of the compre¬ 
hensive and well organized department of general sanitary work 
in which the State Department of Health is so successfully 
engaged. Throughout Pennsylvania our streams are being freed 
from pollution. The records show that 21,730 private sources 
of stream pollution have been abated upon notice from the 
department, not to speak of the thousands more that have been 
stopped through the moral influence of this work. 

A REDUCED TYPHOID RATE. 

Throughout Pennsylvania municipalities are building mod¬ 
ern sewage disposal plants approved by the State. Modern 
water filtration plants similarly approved by the State are being 
constructed. Municipalities are learning to realize the true 
economy of sanitary drainage and water filtration. And what 
is the result of this co-operation between the State health author¬ 
ities and the municipalities? Typhoid fever is killing 2,500 less 
people per year in Pennsylvania than it did four years ago. In 
1906, 56.5 out of every 100,000 persons in Pennsylvania died from 
this disease; in 1907, 50.3; in 1908, 34.4, and in 1909, 23.9. 

Diphtheria used to dig forty-two little graves for every one 
hundred children that were stricken down with it. That was 
before antitoxin was used. But antitoxin is very costly and out 
of the reach of thousands of indigent poor in Pennsylvania. 
Here again the State through its health department has extended 
a helping hand. From October, 1905 , when the State began its 
free distribution of diphtheria antitoxin among the poor, to 
December 31 , 1909 , 20,794 cases of this dread disease, mostly 
little children, were treated with this life-saving serum. Instead 
of forty-two little graves out of every one hundred cases, the 
death rate was reduced to 8 . 48 . The free antitoxin was also 
given in 15,125 cases to persons, mostly children, who had been 





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in contact with the disease. A very low estimate of the saving 
of child life resulting from the State’s free distribution of diph¬ 
theria antitoxin since 1905 is 8,000 lives. Could there be any 
better investment for the taxpayer’s money? 

This year, to protect indigent children injured as a result of 
explosive wounds, the State distributed free tetanus antitoxin 
and many more lives were thus saved. 

THE PARTY AND THE BATTLE FOR HEALTH. 

Communicable diseases of every kind are being fought with 
vigor, the department’s laboratories assisting the private phy¬ 
sician to correctly diagnose his cases. At these laboratories also 
constant scientific research work is being carried on, especially in 
tuberculosis, cancer and infantile paralysis. 

State health officers are guarding the milk supply by regular 
inspections of the sanitary conditions of all dairy farms. 

Certainly the entire campaign of the State Department of 
Health, which was created by the Act of 1905, passed by a 
Republican Legislature and approved by a Republican Governor, 
and which has been maintained and broadened under a subse¬ 
quent Republican administration, reflects the greatest credit not 
only upon the State but the party in power. - 

That the Republican party will continue to support this 
work is shown by the following declaration from its present 
platform: “We call attention to the splendid warfare waged by 
the State Department of Health against the great plague of 
tuberculosis and other diseases, and pledge ourselves to a con¬ 
tinuation of the liberal policy of appropriations for the further 
extension of this work, in which Pennsylvania leads the nation.” 


SCHOOLS FOR SOLDIERS’ ORPHANS. 


LIBERAL APPROPRIATIONS UNDER REPUBLICAN 
CONTROL ROR EDUCATION OF VETERANS’ 
CHILDREN. 


On Thanksgiving morning, 1863, two children, who had been 
made orphans by the Civil War, called at the Executive Mansion 
in Harrisburg and asked the great Republican War Governor, 
Andrew G. Curtin, for bread. This incident is said to have 
furnished the inspiration which led to the establishment of Penn¬ 
sylvania’s splendid system of Soldiers’ Orphan Schools. To the 
efficiency and value of this educational system many thousands 
of widows and orphans throughout this Commonwealth cheer¬ 
fully will bear testimony. It was established and has been main¬ 
tained under the direction of the Republican Party. 

At one time there were forty-two schools, in which were 
located the orphan children of the veterans of the War of the 
Rebellion, who were killed in battle or who died from disease 
since the War, and the children of soldiers, who were unable 
to educate, maintain and clothe them as all children of men who 
took part in that great struggle should be educated and main¬ 
tained. Nearly 20,000 children have been admitted to these 
schools. 

Since 1889 a commission has had charge of the Soldiers’ 
Orphan Schools. It consists of the Governor, three members 
of the House of Representatives, two members of the State 
Senate, and five members of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
recommended by the Department Commander to the Governor 
for appointment every two years. 

PROTECTION OF THE STATE. 

No other State has equaled Pennsylvania in the protection 
and care of children of soldiers of the rebellion and the Spanish- 

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American war. These children have been prepared to meet the 
battle of life. In later years they are found occupying honorable 
positions in the judiciary of the State and honorable members 
of the Bar, editors of newspapers, legislators, in the pulpits of 
the churches, officers in the army and navy, and merchants, 
and hundreds of them filling prominent places in the mechani¬ 
cal industries and on the railroads. In fact, an enumeration of 
these pupils, graduates of the Soldiers’ Orphan Schools, would 
more than occupy the entire space given to this volume. 

The conduct of the Soldiers’ Orphan School system is a 
tribute to the able management of the party in power in Penn¬ 
sylvania. Those who are most closely identified with that sys¬ 
tem who have met with the pupils throughout the State and 
country, and who are familiar with the benefits they have de¬ 
rived from that educational system, speak in the highest praise 
of the efficient manner in which it has been administered. 

FOSTERED BY REPUBLICAN PARTY. 

The Commissioners of the Soldiers’ Orphan Schools regard 
the pupils jis their special wards as they themselves wore the 
blue and, therefore, have a genuine sympathy for the orphans of 
their former comrades. The great industrial school under their 
charge has about 450 pupils enrolled. Thus, these children 
are not only educated in the schoolroom, but also are instructed 
in the industrial department, in order that when they go out 
into the world they will be equipped to support themselves. 
During every Republican administration since the Civil War the 
Republican Party earnestly and successfully has endeavored to 
properly provide adequate educational facilities for the children 
of the men whom this State sent forth to fight the battles of the 
Republic. 


STATE AID IN ROAD CONSTRUCTION 


PENNSYLVANIA’S LIBERAL HIGHWAY ACT—REVE¬ 
NUES FROM MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSES. 


Pennsylvania’s Highway Department was established during 
the administration of Samuel W. Pennypacker. The Highway 
Act of Pennsylvania is the most liberal of all highway acts 
where the State assists in or pays a portion of the cost of recon¬ 
structing roads. 

The total amount appropriated for reconstruction work 
is $9,500,000, covering the period from June 1, 1903, to 

May 31, 1911, and is apportioned to the several counties—out¬ 
side of Philadelphia County—according to the number of miles 
of township roads in a county. Ten per cent, of the"appropria¬ 
tion is set aside as a maintenance fund to be apportioned to the 
townships and counties having improved roads according to the 
number of miles of roads improved. 

PENNSYLVANIA’S TOWNSHIP ROADS. 

There are 97,940 miles of township roads in the State, of 
which 1,580 miles have ben improved by townships, 331 miles 
by counties, and 747 miles with State aid under contract with 
the State Highway Department, at a cost of $ 8 , 947 , 262 . 91 ; the 
State paying three-fourths, the counties one-eighth and the town¬ 
ships one-eighth of the total cost. The average cost of the 
completed roads constructed with State aid, including grading, 
drainage, stone for telford foundation and for macadam top 
and bricks for top, together with damages paid for change of 
location of roads and for engineering and inspection, is $11,- 
375.18 per mile. 

There are now on file with the Department about 2,400 
applications asking for the reconstruction of about 4,800 miles 

of road throughout the State. The State pays all the costs of 

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administration, 75 per centum of the cost of reconstruction, and 
also pays a part of the cost of maintaining improved roads— 
not to exceed 75 per cent, of the average cost of maintaining 
such roads. 

SUPERVISION OF STATE HIGHWAYS. 

Under the Act of April 12, 1905, as amended by the Act 
of 1909, known as the Jones road law, the State Highway De¬ 
partment was given an oversight of the 97,000 miles of earth or 
dirt roads of the State in so far as the boards of township 
supervisors must make an annual report to the Department on 
or before the first day of April in each year. Upon these reports 
is based the distribution of the appropriation made to townships 
of the second class that maintain a cash system of road tax. 
The amount which a township that has a cash system of road 
tax is entitled to “annually receive from the State is 50 per 
centum of the amount of road taxes collected in said town¬ 
ship, as shown by a sworn statement of the board of township 
supervisors: Provided , that no township shall receive, in any one 
year more than $20 for each mile of township road in said town¬ 
ship.” 

REVENUE FROM MOTOR LICENSES. 

Township roads have been reconstructed with State aid in 
all the counties of the State except one, Juniata. 

The Automobile Division of the State Highway Department 
has issued to owners of motor-vehicles 31,062 licenses. Drivers’ 
licenses issued, 14,576; dealers’ licenses, 2,695; motor-cycle li¬ 
censes, 3,528; and 645 special licenses, for which the sum of 
$299,340.32 has been received. The money received from auto¬ 
mobile licenses is paid into the State Treasury for the use of 
the State Highway Department. 


WORK OF RAILROAD COMMISSION. 


IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES AND 
OTHER BENEFITS FOR THE PEOPLE SINCE 
THAT BODY’S CREATION. 


The State Railroad Commission was created by a Republican 
Legislature and appointed by a Republican Governor. Since its 
establishment about 500 complaints have been filed, nearly all 
of which have been disposed of to the satisfaction of both com- 
plai'nants and respondents. The most humble suppliant for the 
Commission’s intervention receives just consideration. In 
almost every county in the State the benefits derived through the 
recommendations of the Commission may be seen in improved 
railroad, trolley and express service, freight rate reductions, 
station facilities and matters of various kinds affecting the 
public. In short, the people look upon the Commission as a 
tribunal where their complaints, no matter how trifling they 
appear to others, will receive prompt and due investigation. 

The Commission, in addition to the consideration of current 
complaints, is now formulating a set of rules for recommenda¬ 
tion to the railroads for the inspection of locomotive boilers. 
This work, which is of considerable magnitude, was suggested 
by a committee of locomotive engineers, and when completed will 
be of vast importance to this body of workingmen. 

In accordance with a concurrent resolution adopted by the 
last General Assembly the Commission is investigating the dif¬ 
ference in the rates and tolls charged for telephone service and 
will submit its report to the coming Legislature. 


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PROTECTION OF THE FORESTS 


A STATE DEPARTMENT WHICH HAS ACCOMPLISPIED 
MUCH IN PRACTICAL CONSERVATION. 


The work of the Department of Forestry steadily has grown 
in value and importance to the State. Its efforts have been 
supported by every Republican administration since the depart¬ 
ment’s creation. 

The purchase of lands toward the establishment of forest 
reserves began in 1898 and at first included lands purchased at 
tax sales. After the creation of the Forestry Department other 
suitable lands were purchased. On September 1, 1910, the total 
area thus held amounted to 920,763 acres. 

In 1903 the Legislature passed a bill establishing the State 
Forestry Academy at Mont Alto. At first little more than a 
ranger school, it has now developed into a successful academy 
for the training of foresters, where the course is equal to that 
in any other similar institution in the United States. From 
the Forest Academy thirty-eight young men have been sent as 
graduates, all of whom are now located on definite areas of the 
reserve, protecting, developing, improving, planting trees, mar¬ 
keting product, building roads and bridges, and in a general way 
doing what in the near future will mean restoration of the large 
mountain area in the State to a timbered condition, protected 
from fire and other depredation. The Forest Academy is 
peculiarly a State institution. It is the only institution of its 
kind in the United States. 

EXTENSIVE SCOPE OF WORK. 

In addition to its work upon the reserves, the Department 
of Forestry stands for all the assistance it can render to the 
people of the State. It is ready to offer its services to the 

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owners of wood lots in making examinations and reports on their 
protection, care and handling. It assists private owners in the 
development of their forests; it will advise how to plant seed¬ 
ling trees and what species to plant on denuded land in the 
possession of individuals; it will grow forest tree seedlings in 
its State nurseries and sell these to citizens of the Common¬ 
wealth at cost price for forest planting; and will send its officials 
to assist in planting by teaching how it should be done. It will 
investigate the diseases of trees, make reports thereon, and 
advise what may be done to prevent the spread of disease so 
far as in its power may lie or is known to the science of to-day. It 
invites correspondence from any person in the State in any way 
interested in the work of forestry. It is collecting a library 
where the best forestry literature of the day may be found, and 
puts at the service of those who desire to consult it It is about 
to undertake the establishment of a seed herbarium, wherein it 
is hoped to collect for the purpose of comparison and identifica¬ 
tion the seeds of all the plants found within the Commonwealth. 
It is likewise hoped to establish a complete collection of the 
woods of the State to be used for the same purpose. It is pre¬ 
paring a card catalogue of the names and addresses of all the 
manufacturers of wood products in the Commonwealth, showing 
what are the peculiar needs of each, and all this will be at the 
service of those who may wish to avail themselves of its use. 

THE TUBERCULOSIS CAMP AT MONT ALTO. 

In addition to what the department in these directions is 
doing and is prepared to do, it has made an extensive examina¬ 
tion and published a report relating to the new disease attacking 
our native chestnut trees and known as the chestnut blight. It 
is about to undertake further an extensive examination into this 
subject to determine, if possible, whether or not the ravages of 
this disease may be stayed, and at the same time to render assist¬ 
ance to those whose trees are suffering from it. Once each year 
it brings together its foresters and other employees in the depth 
of winter, when little may be done outside, and a convention is 
held, wherein papers are read discussing the conditions which 
are peculiar to and the needs for progress and development of 
forestry and forest interests throughout the State. The reports 
of the department and of these proceedings are available for 





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distribution until the supply shall become exhausted and may 
be had for the asking. 

While Commissioner of Forestry, Dr. J. T. Rothrock realized 
that one of the great scourges of the human race might have its 
terrors abated and be largely controlled by proper treatment 
near home in the open woods on high ground. Tuberculosis 
patients generally had been ordered to the Rocky Mountain 
plateau or the dry southwest. The inconvenience and expense 
attending this are apparent. Accordingly, in 1902 the first camp 
sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis patients was estab¬ 
lished by Doctor Rothrock on the Mont Alto Division of the 
South Mountain Forest Reserve, twelve miles southeast of 
Chambersburg. At first it was nothing but a camp, each person 
providing his own necessities and cooking and preparing his own 
food. A large appropriation was procured at the session of 
1905, as the pronounced success of this method of treating tuber¬ 
culosis patients was recognized. 


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THE PARTY AND EDUCATION. 


KEYSTONE STATE’S SPLENDID PUBLIC SCHOOL 
SYSTEM MONUMENT TO WISE REPUB¬ 
LICAN LEADERSHIP. 


For its attitude towards popular education the Republican 
party in Pennsylvania has the approval of the people. The 
splendid public school system of this State is a monument to 
the able and beneficent leadership of that party. But even the 
public school system has not escaped the sinister influence of 
the muck-raker. An instance of this character of misrepre¬ 
sentation is furnished by a writer connected with the Carnegie 
Pension Foundation, who asserted recently that Pennsylvania 
as a, whole has never come into a conception of education from 
the standpoint of the whole people. Fortunately not all the 
people of New England display such dense ignorance of what 
has been accomplished educationally in the State of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. A Boston editor, writing for the National Magazine, 

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says: 

PROGRESSIVENESS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

“Evidently the Pension Foundation does not know that 
Pennsylvania led the world, led Massachusetts even, in the great 
public school awakening of the thirties; that before Horace 
Mann gave Massachusetts its great public school leadership, 
Governor Wolfe, of Pennsylvania, wrote the greatest of educa¬ 
tional messages, and Thaddeus Stevens at Harrisburg made a 
greater educational speech for the public schools than ever was 
made, even by Horace Mann. This Pension Foundation seems 
not to know that Pennsylvania’s poorest paid country school 
teachers get much better salaries than thousands of teachers in 
New England; that the scholarship standards and professional 
training in several of the State Normal Schools of Pennsylvania 

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are fully equal to the best in Massachusetts, and that in the 
poorest they are higher than in any one of eight normal schools 
in New England; that normal school principals in Pennsylvania 
get 60 per cent, higher salaries than in Massachusetts; that the 
State of Pennsylvania gives more money to her common schools 
than all of the New England States combined; that politics has 
played no part in State school administration for sixteen years. 
But why emphasize further this stupendous ignorance of the 
Pension Foundation regarding the public schools of Pennsyl* 
vania, when the ignorance is not confined to that State?” 

WORK OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 

This editor might have added that in teachers’ institutes, 
directors’ associations and other educational gatherings Penn¬ 
sylvania leads the world. The superiority of our school system 
in these particulars is due to legislation enacted during the time 
that the Republican party has controlled the State Legislature. 

Under the administration of Governor Stuart the biennial 
school appropriation was increased to fifteen million dollars. In 
the last twenty years the Legislature has appropriated for school 
purposes a total in excess of one hundred and twenty million 
dollars. During .all the preceding years in which the system has 
been in operation, the appropriation did not exceed twenty-eight 
million dollars. The method of distributing these appropriations 
has helped the rural districts which had no railroads or corpora¬ 
tions jvhich could be taxed. A farmer owning land of the same 
value on both sides of the State line separating New York and 
Pennsylvania recently declared that his taxation was relatively 
less in our State than in New York, and this he attributed to 
the method of distributing our liberal appropriations to the public 
schools. 

EDUCATION FOR THE POOR MAN’S SON. 

The Republican party has aimed to give every boy a chance. 
It has given nominations for office to men who have risen from 
the humblest walks in life. It made such advancement possible 
by offering to them educational advantages enjoyed nowhere 
else. It has enacted legislation which gives the boys and girls 
free text-books and supplies. It has gradually lengthened the 
minimum school term until the average for the State is very 


nearly eight and one-half months. In the public school the poor 
man’s son has the same chance as the sons of. the rich man, whilst 
the latter pays the greater portion of taxes for school purposes. 
The public school, which is free to all, gives the foreigner’s son 
the education essential to the highest success amidst American 
surroundings. The first compulsory attendance law was enacted 
under the administration of Governor Daniel Hastings. In the 
same administration was enacted the high school law of 1895, 
which aims to open the door to the vocations requiring the highest 
skill and training. There are now about twenty-five vocations 
which are based upon special training superimposed upon a gen¬ 
eral education. These are closed against the average youth who 
does not have access to a good high school. 

A MODEL COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW. 

The Republican party does not wish any child to grow up in 
ignorance. It first made attendance at school compulsory by 
giving the State a law which has been gradually perfected until 
it is now one of the best on the statute books of any state or 
country. It has enacted laws to protect the child from labor in 
mines and factories until it has reached the reasonable age of 
fourteen years. Dangerous occupations are forbidden until the 
age of sixteen has been reached. 

In the only manner possible under our State Constitution has 
the way been opened for the creation of teachers’ retirement 
funds. The teachers who have spent their years of strength and 
vigor in the education of the young deserve to be cared for in a 
becoming manner during their declining days. .The Constitution 
forbids pensions by the State, except in the case of soldiers and 
sailors who have served their country in the army or navy. 
Hence the only way to provide for aged teachers was to make 
possible by legislation the raising of local retirement funds. 
The Republican party deserves the credit of the enactment of the 
minimum salary laws under which the teachers in our remotest 
districts get better pay than thousands of teachers in New Eng¬ 
land. 

HENRY HOUCK’S NOMINATION. 

The platform pledges the party to still better things in the 
future, The nomination of Henry Houck furthermore shows 




the willingness of the party to recognize distinguished service 
in the cause of popular education. His triumphant re-election 
as Secretary of Internal Affairs will prove an incentive to faith¬ 
ful service in the hearts of thousands of young teachers. The 
candidate for Lieutenant-Governor likewise earned his spurs 
while he was engaged in teaching. 

The Republican party is anxious to give every child a decent 
seat in a decent schoolhouse. Its leaders have pledged them¬ 
selves in favor of the best possible school system to be found 
anywhere. Republican leaders of this State are anxious to 
give the farmers’ sons an opportunity to acquire the ex¬ 
pert knowledge that will enable them to double their 
crops, thus doubling the arable land within the Commonwealth. 
The Republican leaders have been seeking to make education 
free from the kindergarten through the grades to the high 
schools, including the technical course at the State College and 
free scholarships at the University of Pennsylvania, which now 
attracts more students from foreign lands than Harvard or Yale 
or any other great University in America. The liberal appro¬ 
priations to the University of Pittsburg will in time give 
that metropolis a university with an international reputation. 

FREE NORMAL SCHOOL SYSTEM. 

Among other achievements during Republican administra¬ 
tions may be named free tuition at our State Normal Schools, 
an improved school' code for Philadelphia, provisions for the 
schooling of deaf, blind and feeble-minded children, arrange¬ 
ments for medical inspection by which the child struggling against 
physical defects may be given needed relief and treatment, thus 
placing it on a level with more fortunate playmates. 

Conservation of our natural resources has become a watch¬ 
word everywhere. Of all the problems of conservation, the 
care and education of the child is the most important. The 
greatest asset of the Commonwealth is brains. The boys and 
girls now at school will determine the future of the State. 
Trained hands, thoughtful minds and upright hearts will help 
them to solve the new problems by which our people will be 
confronted. In what the Republican party has done for the 
schools, its leaders have shown themselves alert and wide-awake 
on the greatest of the problems of conservation. No one claims 




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that our school system has reached perfection. The world moves 
and the schools must move forward to suit the needs of 
a progressive people. New legislation is needed from time to 
time. The Republican party is committed to the policy of 
making our school system the best to be found anywhere. It 
has eliminated politics from the school system. It has punished 
the grafter, and it stands for honest management of school affairs 
and for the appointment of teachers on the basis of merit and 
experience. Let any fair-minded citizen weigh the things which 
the Republican party has done for education, and he will know 
how to vote. 

LIBERAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR SCHOOLS. 

In 1868 the Legislature appropriated for educational pur¬ 
poses the sum of $500,000, which was nearly 10 per cent, of the 
State’s income for that year. At that time the State was in debt 
in the sum of $33,286,946, and had been a heavy borrower for 
years. This enormous debt was one of the legacies from the 
Democratic administration, which had been in undisputed control 
prior to the formation of the Republican party. In 1872 the 
appropriation was increased to $700,000, which was the largest 
amount given for this purpose prior to the adoption of the 
present Constitution. That instrument wisely provided that the 
minimum amount to be appropriated annually for the support of 
common schools in Pennsylvania should be $1,000,000, and this 
was the amount given each year until 1887, when the figure was 
increased to $1,500,000. In 1889 the Legislature increased this 
amount to $2,000,000. In 1891, the revenues of the State having 
shown an increase justifying a larger appropriation, the Legis¬ 
lature gave the munificent sum of $5,000,000. In 1893 another 
half million was added, and this amount remained the measure 
of the State’s aid to public schools through the Legislature until 
1907, when it was raised to $7,500,000. A similar appropriation 
was made in 1909. The State’s income for 1907 was $27,000,000, 
approximately, so that it will be seen that for the cause of 
education in the public schools the State gave 28 per cent, of 
its gross income. Reference to the table printed below will show 
that since 1835 the appropriations to common schools reached the 
immense sum of $143,386,968, a truly magnificent showing. No 
other State can show a better record or a more consistent effort 






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to aid and uphold a school system. Therefore the Republican 
party properly is entitled to great credit for the generous attitude 
of the State toward its public schools. 

ANNUAL EXPENDITURES. 

In addition to the sums named above, the State has es¬ 
tablished normal schools for the training of teachers; has 
established and maintained schools for the education of 
the soldiers’ orphans; has made appropriations of large amounts 
for the payment of salaries of county superintendents and per¬ 
sons employed in the Department of Public Instruction, and 
within recent years has established township high schools for 
the better education of the youth in the rural communities, and 
has given reasonably large amounts to aid in their maintenance. 
For the year 1909 the amount actually paid out on account of 
township high schools was $101,520. 

For the purpose of showing accurately what the Republican 
party has done in a practical way for the cause of education in 
Pennsylvania, the following statement is given. It will be inter¬ 
esting also for the purpose of comparison. It covers the period 
from 1835 to date. 


1835. 

... $75,000 

1853. 

... 200,000 

1836. 

75,000 

1854. 

... 230,000 

1837. 

... 700,000 

1855. 

... 230,000 

1838. 

... 108,919 

1856. 

... 231,000 

1839. 

... 108,919 

1857. 

... 280,000 

1840. 

... 108,919 

1858. 

... 280,000 

1841. 

... 330,000 

1859. 

... 280,000 

1842. 

... 200,000 

1860. 

... 280,000 

1843. 

... 250,000 

1861. 

... 308,000 

1844. 

... 200,000 

1862. 

... 303,625 

1845. 

... 200,000 

1863. 

... 316,825 

1846. 

... 200,000 

1864. 

... 316,825 

1847. 

... 200,000 

1865. 

... 354,436 

1848. 

... 200,000 

1866. 

... 355,000 

1849. 

... 200,000 

1867. 

... 355,000 

1850. 

... 200,000 

1868. 

... 500,000 

1851. 

... 200,000 

1869. 

... 500,000 

1852. 

... 200,000 

1870. 

... 500,000 







































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1871. 

.... 650,000 

1891. 

.... 2,000,000 

1872. 

.... 700,000 

1892. 

.... 5,000,000 

1873. 

.... $760,000 

1893. 

.... 5,000,000 

1874. 

.... 1,000,000 

1894. 

.... 5,500,000 

1875. 

.... 1,000,000 

1895. 

.... 5,500,000 

1876. 

.... 1,000,000 

1896. 

.... 5,500,000 

1877. 

.... 1,000,000 

1897. 

.... 5,500,000 

1878. 

.... 1,000,000 

1898. 

.... 5,500,000 

1879. 

.... 1,000,000 

1899. 

.... 5,500,000 

1880. 

.... 1,000,000 

1900. 

.... 5,500,000 

1881. 

.... 1,000,000 

1901. 

.... 5,250,000 

1882. 

.... 1,000,000 

1902. 

.... 5,250,000 

1883. 

.... 1,000,000 

1903. 

.... 5,500,000 

1884. 

.... 1,000,000 

1904. 

.... 5,500,000 

1885. 

.... 1,000,000 

1905. 

.... 5,550,000 

1886. 

.... 1,000,000 

1906. 

.... 5,550,000 

1887. 

.... 1,000,000 

1907. 

.... 7,500,000 

1888. 

.... 1,500,000 

1908. 

.... 7,500,000 

1889. 

.... 1,500,000 

1909. 

.... 7,500,000 

1890. 

.... 2,000,000 

1910. 

.... 7,500,000 


KEYSTONE STATE’S ADVANCED POSITION. 

It is an undisputed fact that Pennsylvania leads all other 
States, not only in the proportion of net revenue available for 
appropriations which is annually expended for the main¬ 
tenance of our school system, but that the amount is much larger 
than that of any other State. The appropriation made for com¬ 
mon school purposes for the past twenty years reaches an enor¬ 
mous aggregate, as will be seen by examination of the table 
printed above, and it is the purpose of the leaders of the party, 
as the revenue of the State warrant, to exercise the greatest 
possible liberality in the matter of appropriating from the State’s 
income that which is necessary for the maintenance and support 
of schools. 

It will be interesting to note the amounts which were paid 
out by the State to each county during the year 1909 :— 

APPROPRIATIONS TO COUNTIES. 


Adams County. $45,662.00 

Allegheny County . 684,017.71 














































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Armstrong County . 76,801.41 

Beaver County. 67,984.49 

Bedford County.. 62,032.86 

Berks County. 199,751.76 

Blair County . 97,122.34 

Bradford County. 86,132.72 

Bucks County. 76,603.35 

Butler County . 70,175.57 

Cambria County. 119,481.40 

Cameron County . 11,057.38 

Carbon County . 55,156.06 

Centre County. 58,397.71 

Chester County .'.. 112,074.10 

Clarion County . 51,354.62 

Clearfield County. 99,456.76 

Clinton County. 44,933.00 

Columbia County. 62,075.18 

Crawford County . 92,020.77 

Cumberland County .'. 65,180.58 

Dauphin County . 134,920.68 

Delaware County. 93,146.24 

Elk County. 42,298.75 

Erie County. 125,526.40 

Fayette County .. 119,182.97 

Forest County . 15,224.41 

Franklin County . 71,943.80 

Fulton County. 15,669.94 

#reene County. 36,517.67 

Huntingdon County . 50,071.50 

Indiana County. 69,586.21 

Jefferson County. 65,300.84 

Juniata County . 24,273.36 

Lackawanna County. 219,182.84 

Lancaster County . 161,858.31 

Lawrence County . 62,374.83 

Lebanon County . 64,739.17 

Lehigh County. 103,711.99 

Luzerne County. 271,809.37 

Lycoming County . 95,306.25 









































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McKean County. 55,846.47 

Mercer County . 87,804.13 

Mifflin County . 34,763.37 

Monroe County. 31,038.77 

Montgomery County. 143,329.71 

Montour County . 17,977.29 

Northampton County . 119,574.19 

Northumberland County . 114,922.86 

Perry County. 39,142.94 

Philadelphia County . 948,088.07 

Pike County. 14,010.98 

Potter County . 43,883.45 

Schuylkill County . 192,272.19 

Snyder County. 26,558.21 

Somerset County. 71,736.45 

Sullivan County. 17,736.88 

Susquehanna County . .. 57,637.30 

Tioga County. 66,550.16 

Union County . 21,738.71 

Venango County . 64,132.16 

Warren County. 57,286.28 

Washington County . 116,015.47 

Wayne County. 44,213.25’ 

Westmoreland County . 160,455.26 

Wyoming County . 25,200.27 

York County . 158,123.71 


Total 


$6,810,155.83 

































CONSERVATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. 


KEYSTONE 'STATE CO-OPERATES WITH NA¬ 
TIONAL GOVERNMENT IN PRESERVING 
NATURAL RESOURCES. 


Under Republican administration Pennsylvania has taken 
the front rank of States which have joined in co-operating with 
the federal government in the conservation of natural resources. 
Realizing the necessity of conserving one of the State’s most 
valuable resources a Republican Legislature, during Governor 
Pennypacker’s administration, passed the Act creating the Water 
Supply Commission. 

Innumerable water and power charters had been granted, 
carrying authority to condemn water under the right of eminent 
domain. In many cases there was no immediate intention of 
using them as they had been procured and were held merely 
for speculative purposes. This meant the tying up, unused, in 
the hands of the grantees, of many valuable franchises and water 
rights which could, and should, have been used by others having 
need for them. 

The Act of May 4, 1905, creating the Water Supply Com¬ 
mission, provided that: “Plereafter no letters patent shall be 
issued to any company desiring to be incorporated for the pur¬ 
pose of supplying water to the public, in any community in the 
Commonwealth, until said application is first submitted to and has 
received the approval of a majority of the said Water Supply 
Commission.” 

SUPERVISION OF WATER FRANCHISES. 

This effectually put a stop to the indiscriminate and improvi¬ 
dent granting of water franchises. It enabled the Commission 
before any such charter was granted to thoroughly investigate 
applications and all the facts in connection therewith, It could 

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withhold its approval from those that did not appear to be for 
a proper purpose and for the public good as well as from those 
whose applicants did not give evidence of a bona fide intention 
to make use of the charter. 

The same Legislature, in a further effort to conserve and 
protect the water supply of the State, by the Act of April 13, 
1905, provided that no water company thereafter incorporated 
should have powers or exercise the right of eminent domain, as 
respects the appropriation of the streams, rivers, or waters of 
the Commonwealth, or any of them, nor the land covered 
thereby.” This was another step towards preventing the appro¬ 
priation of waters for private or speculative purposes. It has 
proved of incalculable benefit to communities that might other¬ 
wise be deprived of natural water supply for public uses. 

SOUND REMEDIAL LEGISLATION. 

Both of these Acts were aimed at, and were effective in, 
restricting the franchises vested in water companies to such only 
as were proper and necessary. But corporations duly chartered, 
while no longer authorized to condemn water, were not limited 
as to the amount they could procure by purchase nor the source 
from which such water could be procured. Thus it was still 
within the power of these companies to procure rights far in 
excess of their needs, often to the detriment of communities. 
It was also in the power of companies desiring a water supply 
for purely industrial purposes to acquire rights in the purer 
streams of the State, which should be reserved, where practicable, 
for domestic purposes. 

To remedy this the Act of June 7, 1907, w r as passed. It 
provided that a charter for a water, or water power, company 
should not be granted unless the application therefor should 
contain “the name of the river, stream, or other body of water, 
from which it is proposed to take or use water or water power, 
and, as near as may be, the points on said river, stream, or other 
body of water, between which said water or water power is pro¬ 
posed to be taken or used.” 

This provision enables the Commission to confine water 
companies to streams which ai*e their natural source of supply 
and to such as are suitable for their purposes. By this means it 




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can reserve for other communities streams which are their natu¬ 
ral source of supply, as well as reserve the purer streams for 
domestic use, and confine, as far as possible, companies desiring 
the supply of water for industrial purposes, to streams that are 
not adaptable for domestic use. In order that no hardship may 
be worked provision is made in the Act for the acquirement of 
a new or additional source where the original one proves inade¬ 
quate or insufficient. 

TO PREVENT UNDESIRABLE MERGERS. 

All of these Acts, of course, affect only companies incorpo¬ 
rated subsequently to their passage. In order to bring, as far 
as possible, companies incorporated prior thereto within their 
provisions and subject to the control of the Commission, the 
Act of June 7, 1907, also provides that no merger or consolida¬ 
tion of two or more companies, and no purchase of the property, 
rights and franchises of one by another shall be valid unless 
approved by the Commission. Such corporations shall, by accept¬ 
ing the provisions of that Act and the Act of April 13, 1905, for¬ 
feit the right of eminent domain over water, and be limited in 
their source of supply to that designated and approved by the 
Commission. 

The Legislature of 1907, for the further protection and con¬ 
servation of the water supply of the State, provided, by the Act 
of May 28, 1907, that no obstruction of any kind could there¬ 
after be placed in or along any public or navigable river or stream, 
nor the course, current nor cross section thereof be changed, 
without the approval of the Commission. This legislation has 
resulted in the protection of many of the streams of the State, 
not' only by preventing the building of dams, bridges, etc., in an 
improper manner, or at an improper place, but also by prevent¬ 
ing the large amount of dumping and filling of debris and other 
material in and along such streams. This had been done by 
railroads and industrial concerns, to the detriment of the stream. 

VALUE OF COMMISSION’S WORK. 

The establishment of the Commission, and its work under 
the authority conferred upon it by the above mentioned Acts of 
the Legislature, undoubtedly, have been the means of saving to 


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the Commonwealth for the future use of its citizens water rights 
and franchises of the value of many millions of dollars. With 
additional legislation, which the Commission hopes for, inestim¬ 
able good can be accomplished towards conserving one of the 
most valuable resources of the Commonwealth and one most 
necessary to the welfare of its people. 




A STUDY OF JOHN KINLEY TENER 


CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAN WHO WILL SUC¬ 
CEED EDWIN S. STUART. 


On June 22 the Pittsburg Gazette-Times printed this dis¬ 
patch from M. E. Gable, one of its staff correspondents in Har¬ 
risburg : 

Harrisburg, Pa., June 21 .—Throughout this long, hot June 
day and far into the night John K. Tener, the next Governor 
of Pennsylvania, has been meeting the people. In room 121 
of the old Lochiel he received incoming delegations and party 
men from all over the State. Some there have been who feared 
that perhaps this man was too little known to the general pub¬ 
lic to undertake the difficult and responsible position of execu¬ 
tive of the Commonwealth. These were astonished to find that 
he has an acquaintanceship which is as broad as the State. 
Others feared that he might be failing in that indefinable quality 
which is most expressively described by the much-abused term 
of “a good mixer.” These found that he was there with the 
presence, with the hand clasp, the smile and the geniality of 
greeting which are among the appraisable assets of political 
popularity. Still others felt that the unobtrusive demeanor 
which is native to Mr. Tener might impress his callers with 
the idea that he lacked that degree of assertiveness and indi¬ 
vidual fire that is necessary to the prosecution of an aggressive 
campaign and the execution of large duties. These discovered 
that those massive shoulders of his carried a head in which there 
was the only sovereignty recognized by American citizenship— 
that of upstanding manhood, of capacity, of vim, of strength 
and of principle. 

TENER A BIG, BROAD MAN. 

There was much sameness in the scene in this room where 
Mr. Tener stood to welcome the hosts of Republicanism in the 

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old Keystone State; and yet it was ever shifting and presenting 
new opportunities to study what manner of man he is that is 
destined to play his part in the history of a great people. 
Well, he stands about 6 feet 5 inches. He is 47 years of age. 
His hair is coal black. His eyes are blue. His face is dark, 
its single illumination being a frank smile, unbidden—not made 
to order—which somehow conveys to you the impression that 
here is one who is confident of his ability to take care of him¬ 
self in whatever station he may be called, and who is certain, 
moreover, that when you get to know him a little better you 
will appreciate him all the more. His forehead is broad. In 
repose his expression is severe and yet not sufficiently so to 
suggest that he has ever so slight a quarrel with the world. 
His jaw is square, but it is that squareness which is indicative 
* of reserve force, of powers of endurance, of sustained physical 
strength, rather than of stubbornness, of obstruction or of brutal 
indifference to others less resolute or .not so strong as he. One 
thing must be said of John Tener in all candor. There is no 
artificiality about him. He poses not, neither does he gush, 
and he makes no attempt to increase the visible or audible 
supply of hot air. I have known him for some time personally 
and yet have never heard him passing cheap compliments to 
kill time or give first aid to conversation; while to-day, though 
he probably met and talked to more human beings than ever 
before in a like number of hours since he was born, he managed 
to get away with his most trying task without indulging in the 
false and flippant flubdub which some statesmen mistake for 
wit and others employ to conceal their own shallowness. So 
if asked what more than anything else is written in Mr. Tener’s 
face, manner and mentality, I should say that it is sincerity. 
You see at once that he is purposeful and that he is not out to 
make a toy of the Governorship or to strike an untrue note in 
his relations with the public. 

TOWERED ABOVE THEM ALL. 

Now while these scenes were ever-shifting and new faces 
ever framed the picture, the central and dominating figure was 
always the same. For Tener towered above them all. He 
looked every inch fit for the part to which the convention of 
to-morrow will nominate him and the people next November 




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will elect him. Men of ordinary size found it a pleasure to 
look up to him politically as it was necessary for them to do 
physically. Whether naturally or unconsciously it is easy to 
rally around a big man; certainly there was no lack of cordial¬ 
ity in the greetings extended to the Republican party’s new 
standard bearer in Pennsylvania to-day. Everybody sang Tener. 
He’s the boy 
From Charleroi. 

That was the catchword and the sentiment as well, and as 
far as the crowds were concerned they turned in to make it a 
day and a night John K. is not likely soon to forget. When 
the special trains from the west got to town and the brass bands 
led them up Market street, with Tener on the Lochiel portico, 
this “Irish lad from County Tyrone,” one time ball player, and 
to-day still in the primary class of the national House of Repre¬ 
sentatives, must have felt, as never before, that the United States 
is a great country and Pennsylvania is a wonderful State of 
opportunity to grow up in. 

More than one man as he withdrew from the reception parlor 
was heard to remark enthusiastically concerning Mr. Tener’s 
personality and bearing. It appears the idea had gone abroad 
that life was merely the creature of fortuitous political condi¬ 
tions and the beneficiary of good luck, without any contributory 
qualifications or attributes of his own. This misconception is 
one of the penalties of party regularity. It is unfortunate for 
the man concerned, but not his fault, and it cannot change his 
mental and moral make-up or take one cubit from his stature. 
Yet not infrequently the public is deceived and sometimes the 
well-meaning are misled into a course of opposition. 

TENER CONVERTS EASY TO MAKE. 

That is how it came about to-day that many hundreds of 
men from all over Pennsylvania were so easily converted into 
red-hot Tener men and will go home prepared to fight for him 
throughout the campaign. For the nomination of Tener marks 
a departure in the Republican politics of the State. It means 
the introduction of new blood at the top. For many years 
State tickets usually have contained the names of men most 
familiar, of men long in official life or public service, until it 
must have seemed sometimes as if honors ran in a circle, which, 


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though narrowed now and then by death, was seldom expanded 
by the introduction of budding ambitions or the development 
of new potentialities. Mr. Tener, to be sure, by reason of his 
years, can no longer—in spite of his youthful appearance— 
claim to be in the boy-wonder class. Yet he is young in public 
life and has had but a brief career in statecraft and legislative 
experience and so will be accounted as representing the par¬ 
ticipation of another generation in the government of the State 
and the further building of the Commonwealth. 

Is this change for good or ill? There is no uncertainty, 
or rather there need be none, on that score. Read, when you 
get the chance, the story of his life. There is romance and 
tragedy in it, there is -discouragement and success in it. As a 
whole it is representative of what boys, unblest of Dame For¬ 
tune, must go through in this land of ours if they would achieve. 
In its outcome to the present it is typical of what an Irish lad 
Americanized, endowed of a strong heart, of stout courage, of 
undaunted spirit and of sturdy purpose can attain. With such 
a man as Governor the Commonwealth will be well served and 
continue its march of progress, prosperity and contentment. 

If the Tener boys were to appear together in any company 
of men anywhere they would have yielded to them the center 
of the stage by common consent. If they were to organize the 
Tener troupe and take to the road they would make a hit sing¬ 
ing “We Are Seven.” For they certainly are a notable family 
of big men, both physically and in the matter of achievement. 
Besides that, they number seven. 

John Kinley Tener, who will be the next Governor of 
Pennsylvania, is the fifth in line. The others are George E., 
Frank J., Robert W., Wallis J., Stephen W. and Edward H. 
All of them, save Robert and Stephen, belong to the great Pitts¬ 
burg territory, and it was here that the family wrought its 
way to fortune and distinction. There are also three sisters— 
Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. William H. Johns and Mrs. Theodore 
Hopkins, the last named of Springfield, Mass. 

The father was dead. He had been a gentleman farmer in 
the north of Ireland. Misfortune overtook him and then death 
claimed him. His wife, a woman of unusual strength of char- 
actor, as well as of intrepid determination, was left with a 





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house full of children and little field in which to develop their 
careers and capacity. She turned her eyes and hopes toward 
the United States, where, in Western Pennsylvania, one branch 
of the Tener line has been settled ..since before the Revolution. 
Here, if anywhere, she felt that her sons and daughters would 
attain that success in life which had thus far been denied the 
family. So they came to America, only to meet a crowning 
grief at the threshold and in the first hazard of new fortunes. 
Another little one was ushered into the world, and that was 
the last loving sacrifice of the brave mother of them all, for 
then death claimed her. Thus the boys had to face the world 
for themselves. 

WORKS IN AN IRON MILL. 

Happily, though in a strange country, they were of good 
stock and no mean order of'ability, and there were those on 
this side who knew and welcomed them. The rest is written 
in the development of Western Pennsylvania, in its industrial 
and financial story and in the lives of these Tener brothers. It 
spells success and good luck, with not a little pioneering in cer¬ 
tain lines and daring in others which is typical of the hardy 
sons of a hardy race. 

John Kinley Tener, member of the Sixty-first Congress 
from the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania District, was born in the 
county of Tyrone, Ireland, July 25, 1863. His real life story 
begins with his arrival, as a boy, in Pittsburg. Here he at¬ 
tended the public and high schools. 

After leaving school his first employment was with the firm 
of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, in a clerical capacity. He afterward 
held positions of trust with the Chartiers Valley Glass Company 
and the Chambers & McKee Glass Company. 

Having older brothers, it was not until he was about seven¬ 
teen that Mr. Tener set out to make his own living. His first 
work was in the weighing department of the South Side estab¬ 
lishment mentioned, and here he became weigh-master. He 
never had either trade or profession of the ordinary kind, but 
he has been in his day a past master in the pitcher’s box, some¬ 
what of an expert acountant and a first-rate company secretary. 
For financial work, such as falls to banking, he has a natural 
aptitude. He has few fads, if any, and his recreations are 
purely a side line. Pie does not go in much for fishing or hunt- 


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ing, and his traveling has been more incidental than systematic. 
Baseball took him around the world, and his position at the 
head of the Elks carried him all over the United States. This 
latter experience gave him something of a keen delight in travel, 
but he has been too busy to indulge this passion to anything 
approaching an occupation. 

FROM YOUTH AN ATHLETE. 

The old Sixth Ward of Pittsburg may lay the flattering 
unction to its heart that it was within its precincts Mr. Tener 
acquired his education. Here, too, he imbibed his taste for 
baseball, and it was on the bluff overlooking the Monongahela 
River that he developed his first powers as a pitcher. 

One of the Teners was asked the other day what was John’s 
most pronounced trait. 

“Oh;’ said he, “that's easy; it’s his good nature. He takes 
things coolly, doesn't become excited easily and manages to get 
away with what he undertakes without much fuss.” 

The Tener boys were circulating around the hotel lobbies 
at Harrisburg Tuesday night before the convention, and, of 
course, attracted a great deal of attention. It must have been 
a bit tiresome, as this or the other one was introduced to some 
stranger, to have the man start in with gushing comments on 
heroic size and good looks. But each one, in his quiet way, 
passed the compliment along to one of the others with a “But 
you ought to see John”—or Frank, or Wallis, as the case might 
be. This is characteristic of the brotherhood. * From George 
E. to Edward Id., the Teners look after each other’s welfare, 
and their loyalty to all and to those who have shown themselves 
friendly to them is proverbial in every circle in which they are 
known. 

Mr. Tener is about as democratic a man as you can find. 
He delights in the good-fellowship of a quiet evening. Not 
given much to a story-telling, he is fond of that diversion and 
is an appreciative listener. He is rarely entertaining whenever 
some remark or incident is suggestive of his globe-trotting ex¬ 
perience. His reminiscences of the famous game of ball at the 
foot of the pyramids and that other one, when King Edward 
(then Prince of Wales) was present, are cases in point, and 
by reason of this tour he is able to talk informingly of almost 
every habitable place of consequence on the globe. 




KEYSTONE STATE IN CONGRESS. 


PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD HAVE A SOLID REPUBLI¬ 
CAN DELEGATION IN THE NATIONAL 
LEGISLATURE. 


If there is a state in the union that ought to elect a solid dele¬ 
gation to Congress Pennsylvania is that State. Pennsylvania sent 
to the Sixty-first Congress the largest Republican delegation in 
that body. Of the thirty-two members to which this State is 
entitled twenty-seven are Republicans. This year the five dis¬ 
tricts represented by opponents of the Republican Party should be 
captured. No other State approaches Pennsylvania in the ex¬ 
tent of the majorities it records for the Republican ticket. These 
majorities are not estimated by the thousands nor the tens 
of thousands, but by the hundreds of thousands. The Key¬ 
stone State is supreme in the strength of its Republicanism. 

THE CAMPAIGN’S NATIONAL ASPECT. 

The election of a State ticket should not overshadow the 
campaign’s national significance. In addition to thirty-two 
members of Congress, a Legislature which will name a United 
States Senator will be elected. The welfare of Pennsylvania de¬ 
mands that every Republican voter shall cast his ballot for the 
ENTIRE Republican ticket. This is the only way to insure 
proper Republican representation for this State in the Sixty- 
second Congress. Pennsylvania should send to Washington men 
who will support the reform policies of President Taft’s ad¬ 
ministration and join other representatives of the Republican 
party in preventing destructive Democratic enactments. 

WORK OF THE SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. 

Republican Congressional candidates are justified in empha¬ 
sizing the legislative record of the Sixty-first Congress.- That 

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Congress in two sessions enacted into law practically all the 
pledges adopted by the Republican National platform of 1908. 
■In a little more than a year the promises with which the Repub¬ 
lican Party went before the people in the Taft campaign have 
been redeemed. No other Congress ever accomplished as much. 
In important measures, as well as in volume of work, the Sixty- 
first Congress is without parallel. The following bills are among 
the most vital legislation ever enacted by a Congress of the United 
States:— 

The Payne Tariff Bill. 

The Railroad Rate Bill, with its numerous regulations and 
provisions. 

Creation of a system of postal savings banks. 

Separate Statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. 

Conservation of public lands. 

Conservation of coal lands. 

Preservation of national forests. 

Creation of a Bureau of Mines, for the purpose of lessening 
mine accidents. 

The Philippines tariff law. 

These were merely the beginning. Five hundred and seven 
public laws were enacted, and 6,500 private laws, making a grand 
total of 7,007, or many more than was passed by any previous 
Congress. 

MEANING OF DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS. 

From a Speech in the House by Representative 
Loudenslager. 

But to be a little more specific, if the next House should 
have a Democratic majority we may assume that* Champ 
Clark will be elected Speaker and that Mr. Underwood will 
be the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. 

To make good their claims and promises and threats a 
tariff bill would be framed and possibly passed. It might 
not be exactly a Morrison bill or a Mills Bill or a Wilson 
bill. It might be better or it might be and probably would 
be, worse. It would, however, be a Democratic bill, and a 
Democratic tariff means a tariff for revenue only or prac¬ 
tical free trade. We know what Speaker Clark would ad¬ 
vise, for did he not say in this Chamber on March 24, 1897: 



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“I am a free trader, and proudly take my stand with Sir 
Robert Peel, Richard Cobden, John Bright and Henry George. 
* * * If I had my way to-day, sir, I would tear them 

(custom houses) all down, from turret to foundation stone, 
for from the beginning they have been nothing but a den 
of robbers.” 

We know what Chairman Underwood would advise, for 
within a month he said on this floor:— 

“Where he (’Chairman Payne) and I diflfer in that he is 
a high protectionist and I believe in a tariff for revenue/’ 

We know just what kind of a tariff bill would come out of 
that committee, and we all know just what kind of a meas¬ 
ure would be jammed through the House. If there were any 
fight at all, it would be as to how much protection would be 
wiped out and not how much would be preserved. We would 
have agitation and debate and business would suffer accord¬ 
ingly. 

********* * 

Should the Democratic Party be successful next November, 
and should we have a Democratic House of Representatives 
in the Sixty-second Congress, there is no doubt in my mind 
but that it would be a disastrous period of two years for this 
country, and should this period be followed by the election 
of a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate and 
Plouse, then I say to you that there is no doubt whatever that 
the calamity that would befall us would be many fold greater 
than it was fifteen years ago. 

We have during the past dozen years under Republicanisni 
attained to such commercial and industrial heights, we have 
made such a rapid and substantial progress, we have reached 
such magnitude in our foreign relations and such proportions 
in our domestic transactions that our fall to Democratic levels 
would be much more severe, much more disastrous, far more 
ruinous than was the case during the awful period I have 
recalled. 

Now is the time to avert the disaster. Now is the time to 
g : ve warning. From now to November 8th we should use 
every effort to acquaint the people with the truth. We should 
give them the facts about the past, facts about the present, 
honest views of the* future. Let us learn our lesson before 
election, not afterwards, as was the case before, 



FACTS FOR THE MAN WHO TOILS 


WAGES AND COST OF LIVING FOR THE LABORER 
IN FREE TRADE COUNTRIES ABROAD. 


The Republican principle of protection, which is so closely 
interwoven with Pennsylvania’s industrial life, is being at- 
tacked by the opposition to the Republican party. The 
principle of protection which has developed and fostered the 
industries of Pennsylvania has been instrumental in main¬ 
taining the American standard of wages, placing our work¬ 
man in a position where he can enjoy the comforts of ! life 
to an extent that the workingmen of no other country enjoy. 
This proves the fallacies of the free trade doctrine when 
applied to our State relative to wages and the cost of living. 
As evidence of this claim, tables of wages paid in Europe 
are presented below. They refute assertions made by the 
ambitious and unscrupulous politician in this campaign to de¬ 
ceive and confuse the voter. A calm, deliberate consideration 
should be given to the facts and issues which have such an 
important bearing upon the welfare of the workingman and 
those dependent upon him. 

The figures in these tables are taken from United States 
Consular reports for 1910.:— 

SCALE OF WAGES IN ENGLAND. 

Stonemasons.21 cents per hour 

Bricklayers and plasterers .22 cents per hour 

Carpenters.21 cents per hour 

Plumbers.,.22 cents per hour 

Boilermakers, sheet iron workers and angle iron smiths 
receive, $10.94 per week. Riveters, $6.32 per week. Calkers, 
$8.49 per week. Holders-up, $6.56 per week. 

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Lithographers, $9.73 per week. 

Bookbinders, $8.50 per week. 

Compositors on jobbing, trade and weekly newspapers, 
$9.49 per week. 

Shoe trade lasters and finishers, $7.29 per week. Pressmen 
in shoe trade, $4.86 per week. 

Foremen in bakeries, $8.51 per week. Other workmen in 
bakeries receive from $6.81 to $7.29 per week. 

Turners, fitters, coppersmiths, brass finishers and press tool- 
makers receive each $ 7.73 per week. Smiths, $9-73 P er week. 

Policemen in the heart of London receive $6.56 per week. 

Motor omnibus drivers, sixteen hours constituting a day, 
receive from $1.70 to $1.95 per day. 

Coal porters, men who deliver coal, receive $7.06 per week. 

City street cleaners receive $1.13 per day. 

Drivers of delivery wagons, for wholesale and retail stores, 
twelve to fourteen hours constituting a day’s work, receive 
$7.25 to $8.50 per week. 

Lbndon letter carriers start at $5.10 per week and gradually 
advance to $8.50 per week, which is the maximum wage they 
can get. 

WAGES PAID FARM HANDS IN CANADA. 

Average wages paid farm labor in Canada is $23.69 per 
month, or 79 cents per day; this rate of wages does not 
include board. 

Wages paid at the Carrels shops in Belgium, which is 
one of the largest industries in that country, is from 96 cents 
to $1.25 per day. As this firm employs 650 men, the rate, of 
wages given may be considered as a fair basis for that paid 
throughout that country. 

There is a class of labor known as “house workers” in 
Switzerland. They live in villages. The raw material is 
furnished them by agents of large corporations and they are 
paid for the finished product. All the members of the family 
participate in this work and the combined earnings of from 
five to seven persons do not exceed from $3.47 to $4.19 
per week. 

Expert lacemakers rarely earn more than 2*4 cents per 
hour; toymakers earn from 1% to 1 >4 cents per hour. Adults 


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work ninety hours per week and children work sixty hours. 
Crochet workers earn 2 cents per hour; linen weavers, males, 
earn 2*4, cents per hour; glovemakers, 2*4 cents per hour; shoe 
workers, 3 cents per hour; wood carvers, 6 T 4 cents per hour; 
fancy hand bag weavers, 7 cents per hour; watchmakers, 
7*4 cents per hour. 

What is of greater importance to workmen than wages is 
the sanitary condition surrounding them in their daily voca¬ 
tion in the above industries. Absence of all hygienic and 
sanitary conditions impair the health of the employees. 


WAGES PAID RAILWAY EMPLOYEES IN 
ENGLAND. 

Engine drivers, $1.33 to $j. 82 per day; firemen, from 84 
cents to $1.20 per day; brakemen, $7.29 to $7.78 per week. 

Cleaners, beginning at sixteen or seventeen years of age, 
$2.43 per week; gradually increasing until the maximum of 
$4.86 per week is reached. 


TEXTILE WORKERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 

There are 1,171,000 textile workers, of whom 482,000 are 
men and 689,000 are women. The total wages paid these 
workers in 1909 were $240,000,000, or an average of $211.68 
per year. The average weekly wage paid men were $6.83; 
those paid to women, $3.75. Those paid to boys, $2.53, and 
to girls, $2.17 per week. 

TEXTILE WORKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

There are in Pennsylvania 123,204 textile workers, of whom 
47,393 are men and 75,811 are women. The total wages paid 
to these workers are $46,916,423, ‘an average of $380.80 per 
year, showing an excess of $169.12 for each employee over 
that paid in the United Kingdom for the same class of labor. 
The average weekly wages for men being $10.16; for women, 
$5.55. The average weekly wages paid minors, meaning chil¬ 
dren under sixteen years.of age, are $3.35. 


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MINERS’ AND LABORERS’ WAGES PAID IN AND 

ABOUT THE MINES IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, 
BELGIUM, AUSTRIA AND ITALY. 

Miners in England receive from $1.40 to $1.70 per day; out¬ 
side labor received from $1.12 to $1.30 per day. At the 
mines ten miles from Liverpool women and girls work on 
the pitheads; their wages vary from 65 to 85 cents per day. 

Miners in Scotland receive from $1.70 to $1.75 per day; 
outside labor, $1.20 to $1.37 per day. 

French miners receive from 80 cents to $1.10 per day. 

In Germany the wages for inside men are from 65 to 95 
cents per day. 

In Belgium inside workmen receive from 70 to 95 cents 
per day. As in parts of England, women are employed in 
Belgium, laboring ouside the mines; they receive from 40 
to 80 cents per day. „ 

In Austria inside men are paid from 80 to 90 cents per day; 
outside men from 55 to 67 cents per day. 

Good mechanics in Italy are paid from 12 to 37 cents per 
hour. 


COST OF PROVISIONS IN ENGLAND. 


Veal. 

Filet steak.. 

Rump steak . 

Sirloin steak . 

Other kinds of steak 

Beef . 

Pork . 

Mutton. 

Lamb cutlets .. 

Mutton chops . 

Sausage . 

Bacon. 

Ham . 

Cooked ham . 

Liver . 

Codfish . 

Haddock, fresh 
Haddock, dried .... 


24 to 32 cents per pound 
. .28 to 36 cents per pound 
24 to 32 cents per pound 
. 28 to 32 cents per pound 
20 to 30 cents per pound 
18 to 26 cents per pound 
14 to 20 cents per pound 
13 to 24 cents per pound 

.36 cents per pound 

24 to 30 cents per pound 
. . 12 to 22 cents per pbund 
, 11 to 28 cents per pound 
.20 to 28 cents per pound 
.48- to 61 cents per pound 
12 to 24 cents per pound 
. 8 to 20 cents per pound 
. 6 to 48 cents per pound 
. 4 to 36 cents per pound 




















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Salmon .56 to 73 cents per pound 

Chickens. .54 to 96 cents per piece 

Ducks.85 cents to $1.82 per piece 

Geese.15 to 20 cents per pound 

Coffee .24 to 44 cents per pound 

Tea.2'i to 61 cents per pound 

Cream .48 to 67 cents per quart 

Milk.8 cents per quart 

Butter. ,....26 to 32 cents per pound 

Lard .10 to 18 cents per pound 

Eggs.36 to 48 cents per dozen 

Currants . 8 to 12 cents per pound 

Raisins . 8 to 12 cents per pound 

Macaroni. 8 to 16 cents per pound 

Oat meal. 4 to 7 cents per pound 

Black pepper ..21 cents per pound 

Rice . 3 to 8 cents per pound 

Sugar, loaf .5 cents per pound 

Sugar, granulated .4 to 5 cents per pound 

Sugar, brown.4 cents per pound 

Lemons .12 to 24 cents per dozen 

Oranges.24 to 72 cents per dozen 

Bread .6 cents per two-pound loaf 

Flour.:.$6.86 per barrel 

Potatoes.. .66 to 85 cents per bushel 

Onions...85 cents4>er bushel 

Cabbage . .4 cents per head 

Ovsters .40 to 73 cents per dozen 

































PRINCIPLES OF THE PARTY 


NATIONAL AND STATE PLATFORMS UPON WHICH 
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES STAND. 


The principles of the Republican party are set forth in two 
platforms printed herewith—the National platform adopted 
by the convention that nominated William H. Taft in 1908, 
and the platform of the Republican State Convention, held 
in Harrisburg, June 22, 1910. Upon these principles the 
Republican party and the Republican candidates in Pennsyl¬ 
vania stand. 

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM. 

Once more the Republican Party, in National Convention 
assembled, submits its cause to the people. This great his¬ 
toric organization, that destroyed slavery, preserved the 
Union, restored credit, expanded the National domain, estab¬ 
lished a sound financial system, developed the industries 
and resources of the country, and gave to the nation her seat 
of honor irP the councils of the world, now meets the new prob¬ 
lems of government with the same courage and capacity with 
which it solved the old. 

REPUBLICANISM UNDER ROOSEVELT. 

* 

In this greatest era of American advancement the Republican 
Party has reached its highest service under the leadership of 
Theodore Roosevelt. His administration is an epoch in 
American history. In no other period since National sov¬ 
ereignty was won under Washington, or preserved under 
Lincoln, has there been such mighty progress in those ideals 
of government, which make for justice, equality and fair deal¬ 
ing among men. The highest aspirations of the American people 
have found a voice. Their most exalted servant represents 

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the best aims and worthiest purposes of all his countrymen. 
American manhood has been lifted to a nobler sense of duty 
and obligation. Conscience and courage in public station and 
higher standards of right and wrong in private life have be¬ 
come cardinal principles of political faith; capital and labor 
have been brought into closer relations of confidence and inter¬ 
dependence ; and the abuse of wealth, the tyranny of power, 
and all the evils of privilege and favoritism have been put to 
scorn by the simple, manly virtues of justice and fair play. 

The great accomplishments of President Roosevelt have 
been, first and foremost, a brave and impartial enforcement of 
the law; the prosecution of illegal trusts and monopolies; 
the exposure and punishment of evil-doers in the public 
service; the more effective regulation of the rates and service 
of the great transportation lines; the complete overthrow 
of preferences, rebates and "discriminations; the arbitration 
of labor disputes; the amelioration of the condition of wage- 
earners everywhere; the conservation of the natural resources 
of the country; the forward step in the improvement of the 
inland waterways, and always the earnest support and defense 
of every wholesome safeguard which has made more secure 
the guarantees of life, liberty and property. 

These are the achievements that will make Theodore Roose¬ 
velt his place in history, but more than all else the great things 
he has done will be an inspiration to those who have yet 
greater things to do. We declare our unfaltering adherence 
to the policies thus inaugurated, and pledge their continuance 
under a Republican administration of the Government. 

EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY. 

Under the guidance of Republican principles the American 
people have become the richest nation in the world. Our 
wealth to-day exceeds that of England and all her colonies, 
and that of France and Germany combined. When the Re¬ 
publican Party was born the total wealth of the country was 
$16,000,000,000. It has leaped to $110,000,000,000 in a genera¬ 
tion, while Great Britain has gathered but $60,000,000,000 in 
five hundred years. The United States now owns one-fourth 
of the world’s wealth and makes one-third of all modern man¬ 
ufactured products. In the great necessities of civilization, 




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such as coal, the motive power of all activity; iron, the 
chief basis of all industry; cotton, the staple foundation of 
all fabrics; wheat, corn and all the agricultural products that 
feed mankind, America’s supremacy is undisputed. And yet 
her great natural wealth has been scarcely touched. We have 
a vast domain of three million square miles, literally bursting 
with latent treasure, still waiting the magic of capital and 
industry to be converted to the practical uses of mankind; 
a country rich in soil and climate, in the unharnessed energy 
of its rivers and in all the varied products of the field, the 
forest and the factory. With gratitude for God’s bounty, 
with pride in the splendid productiveness of the past and with 
confidence in the plenty and prosperity of the future, the 
Republican Party declares for the principle that in the devel¬ 
opment and enjoyment of wealth so great and blessings so 
benign that there shall be equal opportunity for all. 

THE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS. 

Nothing so clearly demonstrates the sound basis upon which 
our commercial industrial and agricultural interests are 
founded, and the necessity of promoting their continued wel¬ 
fare through the operation of Republican policies, as the 
recent safe passage of the American people through a financial 
disturbance which, if appearing in the midst of Democratic 
rule or the menace of it, might have equaled the familiar 
Democratic panics of the past. We congratulate the people 
upon this renewed evidence of American supremacy and hail 
with confidence the signs now manifest of a complete restora¬ 
tion of business prosperity in all lines of trade, commerce 
and manufacturing. 

RECENT REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION. 

Since the election of William McKinley in 1896 the people 
of this country have felt anew the wisdom of entrusting to 
the Republican Party through decisive majorities the control 
and direction of the National legislation. 

The many wise and progressive measures adopted at recent 
sessions of Congress have demonstrated the patriotic resolve 
of Republican leadership in the legislative department to keep 
step in the forward march toward better government. 


Notwithstanding the indefensible filibustering of a Demo¬ 
cratic minority in the House of Representatives during the 
last session, many wholesome and progressive laws were 
enacted, and we especially commend the passage of the emer¬ 
gency currency bill, the appointment of the National mon¬ 
etary commission, the employers’ and Government liability 
laws, the measures for the greater efficiency of the Army and 
Navy, the widow’s pension bill, the child labor law for the 
District of Columbia, the new statute for the safety of rail¬ 
road engineers and firemen, and many other acts conserving 
the public welfare. 

REPUBLICAN PLEDGES FOR THE FUTURE.— 
TARIFF. 

The Republican Party declare unequivocally for the revision 
of the tariff by a special session of Congress immediately fol¬ 
lowing the inauguration of the next President, and com¬ 
mends the steps already taken to this end in the work 
assigned to the appropriate committees of Congress which are 
now investigating the operation and effect of existing sched¬ 
ules. In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection 
is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will 
equal the difference between the cost of production at home 
and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American 
industries. We favor the establishment of maximum and 
minimum rates to be administered by the President under 
limitations fixed in the law, the maximum to be available 
to meet discriminations by foreign countries against Ameri¬ 
can goods entering their markets, and the minimum to rep¬ 
resent the normal measure of protection at home, the aim 
and purpose of the Republican policy being not only to pre¬ 
serve, without excessive duties, that security against for¬ 
eign competition to which American manufacturers, farmers 
and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high 
standard of living of the wage-earners of this country, who 
are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective system. 
Between the United States and the Philippines we believe in 
a free interchange of products with such limitations as to sugar 
and tobacco as will afford adequate protection to domestic 
interests. 





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CURRENCY. 

We approve the emergency measure adopted by the Gov¬ 
ernment during the recent financial disturbance, and espec¬ 
ially commend the passage by Congress at the last session 
of the law designed to protect the country from a repetition 
of such stringency. The Republican Party is committed to 
the development of a permanent currency system, responding 
to our great needs; and the appointment of the National 
Monetary Commission by the present Congress, which will 
impartially investigate all proposed methods, insures the 
early realization of this purpose. The present currency laws 
have fully justified their adoption, but an expanding com¬ 
merce, a marvelous growth in wealth and population, multi¬ 
plying the centres of distribution, increasing the demand for 
the movement of crops in the West and South, and entailing 
periodic changes in monetary conditions, disclose the need 
of a more elastic and adaptable system. Such a system must 
meet the requirements of agriculturists, manufacturers, mer¬ 
chants and business men generally, must be automatic in¬ 
operation, minimizing the fluctuations in interest rates, and, 
above all, must be in harmony with that Republican doctrine 
which insists that every dollar shall be based upon and as 
good as gold. 

POSTAL SAVINGS. 

We favor the establishment of a postal savings bank system 
for the convenience of the people and the encouragement of 
thrift. 


TRUSTS. 

The Republican Party passed the Sherman Anti-Trust law 
over Democratic opposition, and enforced it after Democratic 
dereliction. It has been a wholesome instrument for good 
in the hands of a wise and fearless administration. But expe¬ 
rience has shown that its effectiveness can be strengthened 
and its real objects better attained by such amendments as 
will give to the Federal Government greater supervision and 
control over, and secure greater publicity in, the management 
of that class of corporations engaged in interstate commerce 
having power and opportunity to effect monopolies. 





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RAILROADS. 

We approve the enactment of the railroad rate law and the 
vigorous enforcement by the present administration of the 
statutes against rebates and discriminations, as a result of 
which the advantages formerly possessed by the large shipper 
over the small shipper have substantially disappeared; and in 
this connection we commend the appropriation by the present 
Congress to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to 
thoroughly investigate and give publicity to the accounts 
of interstate railroads. We believe, however, that the inter¬ 
state commerce law should be further amended so as to give 
railroads the right to make and publish traffic agreements 
subject to the approval of the Commission, but maintaining 
always the principle of competition between naturally com¬ 
peting lines and avoiding the common control of such lines by 
any means whatsoever. We favor such National legislation 
and supervision as will prevent the future overissue of stocks 
and bonds by interstate carriers. 

RAILROAD AND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. 

The enactment in constitutional form at the present session 
of Congress of the Employers’ Liabiliy law, the passage and 
enforcement of the safety appliance statutes, as well as the 
additional protection secured for engineers and firemen, the 
reduction in the hours of labor of trainmen and railroad 
telegraphers, the successful exercise of the powers of media¬ 
tion and arbitration between interstate railroads and their 
employees, and the law making a beginning in the policy of 
compensation for injured employees of the Government, are 
among the most commendable accomplishments of the pres¬ 
ent administration. But there is further work in this direc¬ 
tion yet to be done, and the Republican Party pledges its 
continued devotion to every cause that makes for safety and 
the betterment of the conditions among those whose labor 
contributes so much to the progress and welfare of the 
country. 

WAGE-EARNERS GENERALLY, 

The same wise policy which has induced the Republican 
Party to maintain protection to American labor, to establish 




an eight-hour clay in the construction of all public works, to 
ncrease the list of employees who shall have preferred claims 
for wages under the bankruptcy laws, to adopt a child labor 
statute for the District of Columbia, to direct an investigation 
into the condition of working women and children, and, 
later, of employees of telephone and telegraph companies 
engaged in interstate business, to appropriate $150,000 at 
the recent session of Congress in order to secure a thorough 
inquiry into the causes of catastrophies and loss of life in 
the mines and so amend and strengthen the law prohibiting 
the importation of contract labor, will be pursued in every 
legitimate direction within Federal authority to lighten the 
burdens and increase the opportunity for happiness and ad¬ 
vancement of all who toil. The Republican Party recognizes 
the special needs of wage-workers generally, for their well 
being means the well being of all. But more important than 
all other considerations is that of good citizenship, and we 
especially stand for the needs of every American, whatever 
his occupation, in his capacity as a self-respecting citizen. 

COURT PROCEDURE. 

The Republican Party will uphold at all times the authority 
and integrity of the courts, State and Federal, and will ever 
insist that their powers to enforce their process and to pro¬ 
tect, life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. 
We believe, however, that the rules of procedure in the 
Federal Courts with respect to the issuance of the writ of 
injunction should be more accurately defined by statute, and 
that no injunction or temporary restraining order should be 
issued without notice, except where irreparable injury would 
result from delay, in which case a speedy hearing thereafter 
should be granted. 

THE AMERICAN FARMER. 

Among those whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of 
the whole country as that of the wage-earner is the Ameri¬ 
can farmer. The prosperity of the country rests peculiarly 
upon the prosperity of agriculture. The Republican Party 
during the last twelve years has accomplished extraordinary 
work in bringing the resources of the National Government 


to the aid of the farmer, not only in advancing agriculture 
itself, but in increasing the conveniences of rural life. Free 
rural mail delivery has been established; it now reaches nrl- 
lions of our citizens, and we favor its extension until every 
community in the land receives the full benefits of the pos¬ 
tal service. We recognize the social and economical advan¬ 
tages of good country roads, maintained more and more 
largely at public expense, and less and less at the expense 
of the abutting owner. In this work we commend the growing 
practice of State aid, and we approve the efforts of the 
National Agricultural Department by experiments and other¬ 
wise to make clear to the public the best methods of road, 
construction. 


RIGHTS OF THE NEGRO. 

The Republican Party has been for more than fifty years 
the consistent friend of the American negro. It gave him 
freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the 
declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and 
it believes to-day that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, 
industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and en¬ 
couragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for 
all men, without regard to race or color; we declare once 
more, and without reservation, for the enforcement in letter 
and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend¬ 
ments to the Constitution, which were designed for the pro¬ 
tection and advancement of the negro, and we condemn all 
devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for 
reasons of color alone as unfair, un-American and repugnant 
to the supreme law of the land. 

NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATERWAYS. 

We indorse fhe movement inaugurated by the administra¬ 
tion for the conservation of natural resources; we approve 
all measures to prevent the waste of timber; we commend 
the work now going on for the reclamation of arid lands, and 
reaffirm the Republican policy of the free distribution of the 
available areas of the public domain to the landless settler. 
No obligation of the future is more insistent and none will 
result in greater blessings to posterity. In line with this 




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splendid undertaking is the further duty, equally imperative,, 
to enter upon a systematic improvement upon a large and 
comprehensive plan, just to all portions of the country, of 
the waterways, harbors and great lakes, whose natural adap¬ 
tability to the increasing traffic of the land is one of the 
greatest gifts of a benign Providence. 

THE ARMY AND NAVY. 

The Sixtieth Congress passed many commendable acts in¬ 
creasing the efficiency of the Army and Navy, making the 
militia of the States an integral part of the National estab¬ 
lishment, authorizing joint maneuvers of army and milita, 
fortifying new naval bases and completing the construction 
of coaling stations, instituting a female nurse corps for naval 
hospitals and ships, and adding two new battleships, ten 
torpedo boat destroyers, three steam colliers and eight sub¬ 
marines to the strength of the Navy. Although at peace 
with all the world and secure in the consciousness that the 
American people do not desire and will not provoke a war 
with any other country, we nevertheless declare our unal¬ 
terable devotion to a policy that will keep this Republic ready 
at all times to defend her traditional doctrines, and assure lrer 
appropriate part in promoting permanent tranquility among 
the nations. 

PROTECTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD. 

We commend the vigorous efforts made by the Administra¬ 
tion to protect American citizens in foreign lands, and pledge 
ourselves to insist upon the just and equal protection of all 
our citizens abroad. It is the unquestioned duty of the 
Government to procure for all our citizens, without distinc¬ 
tion, the rights to travel and sojourn in friendly countries, 
and we declare ourselves in favor of all proper efforts tending 
to that end. 

EXTENSION OF FOREIGN COMMERCE. 

Under the administration of the Republican Partv the foreign 
pommerce of the United States has experienced a remarkable 
growth, until it has a present annual valuation approximately 
of three h>illipns of cjollars, and give? employment to a vast 


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amount of labor and capital, which would otherwise be idle. 
It has inaugurated, through the recent visit of the Secretary 
of State to South America and Mexico, a new era of Pan- 
American commence and comity, which is bringing us into 
closer touch with our twenty sister American republics, hav¬ 
ing a common historical heritage, a Republican form of gov¬ 
ernment, and offering us a limitless field of legitimate com¬ 
mercial expansion. 

ARBITRATION AND THE HAGUE TREATIES. 

The conspicuous contributions of American statesmanship 
to the great cause of international peace, so signally advanced 
in The Hague conferences, are an ‘occasion for just pride 
and gratification. At the last session of the Senate of the 
United States, eleven Hague conventions were ratified, estab¬ 
lishing the rights of neutrals, laws of war on land, restric¬ 
tion of submarine mines, limiting the use of force for the 
collection of contractual debts, governing the opening of 
hostilities, extending the application of Geneva principles, 
and, in many ways lessening the evils of war and promoting 
the peaceful settlement of international controversies. At 
the same session twelve arbitration conventions with great 
nations were confirmed, and extradition, boundary and natu¬ 
ralization treaties of supreme importance were ratified. We 
indorse such achievements as the highest duty a people can 
perform and proclaim the obligation of further strengthening 
the bonds of friendship and good will with all nations of the 
world. 

MERCHANT MARINE. 

We adhere to the Republican doctrine of encouragement to 
American shipping and urge such legislation as will revive 
the merchant marine prestige of the country, so essential to 
National defense, the enlargement of foreign trade and the 
industrial prosperity of our own people. 

VETERANS OF THE WARS. 

Another Republican policy which must be ever maintained 
is that of generous provision for those who have fought the 
country’s battles and for the widows and orphans of those 
who have fallen. We commend the increase in the widows’ 




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pensions made by the present Congress, and declare for a 
liberal administration of all pension laws, to the end that the 
people’s gratitude may grow deeper as the memories of heroic 
sacrifice grow more sacred with the passing years. 

CIVIL SERVICE. 

We reaffirm our former declaration that the civil service 
laws, enacted, extended and enforced by the Repirblican Party, 
shall continue to be maintained and obeyed. 

PUBLIC HEALTH. 

We commend the efforts designed to secure greater efficiency 
in National public health agencies, and favor such legislation 
as will effect this purpose. 

BUREAU OF MINES AND MINING. 

In the interest of the great mineral industries of our country, 
we earnestly favor the establishment of a Bureau of Mines 
and Mining. 

CUBA, PORTO RICO, PHILIPPINES AND PANAMA. 

The American Government, in Republican hands, has freed 
Cuba, giving peace and protection to Porto Rico and the 
Philippines under our flag, and begun the construction of 
the Panama Canal. The present conditions in Cuba vindicate 
the wisdom of maintaining between that Republic and this 
imperishable bonds of mutual interest, and the hope is now 
expressed that the Cuban people will soon again be ready to 
assume complete sovereignty over their land. 

In Porto Rico the Government of the United States is 
meeting loyal and patriotic support; order and prosperity 
prevail, and the well being of'the people is in every respect 
promoted and conserved. 

We believe that the native inhabitants of Porto Rico should 
be at once collectively made citizens of the United States, 
and that all others properly qualified under existing laws 
residing in said island should have the privilege of becoming 
naturalized. 

In the Philippines insurrection has been suppressed law 
established and life and property made secure. Education and 



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practical experience are there advancing the capacity of the 
people for government, and the policies of McKinley and 
Roosevelt are leading the inhabitants step by step to*an ever- 
increasing measure of home rule. 

Time has justified the selection of the Panama route for 
the great Isthmian Canal, and the events have shown the 
wisdom of securing authority over the zone through which it 
is to be built. The work is now progressing with rapidity 
far beyond expectation, and already the realization of the 
hopes of centuries has come within the vision of the near 
future. 

NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 

We favor the immediate admission of the Territories of 
New Mexico and Arizona as separate States in the Union. 

CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF LINCOLN. 

February 12, 1909, will be the one’hundredth anniversary of 
the birth of Abraham Lincoln, an immortal spirit whose fame 
has brightened with the receding years, and whose name 
stands among the first of those given to the world by the 
great Republic. We recommend that this centennial anni¬ 
versary be celebrated throughout the confines of the nation 
by all the people thereof, and especially by the public schools, 
as an exercise to stir the patriotism of the youth of the land. 

DEMOCRATIC INCAPACITY FOR GOVERNMENT. 

We call the attention of the American people to the fact 
that none of the great measures here advocated by the Re¬ 
publican Party could be enacted, and none of the steps for¬ 
ward here proposed could be taken, under a Democratic ad¬ 
ministration or under one in which party responsibility is 
divided. The continuance of present policies, therefore, ab¬ 
solutely requires the continuance in power of that party which 
believes in them and which possesses the capacity to put them 
into operation. 

FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEMOC¬ 
RACY AND REPUBLICANISM. 

Beyond the platform declarations, there are fundamental dif¬ 
ferences between the Republican Party and its chief oppo- 




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nent which makes the one worthy and the other unworthy of 
public trust. 

In history the difference between Democracy and Repub¬ 
licanism is that the one stood for debased currency, the other 
for honest currency; the one for free silver, the other for 
sound money; the one for free trade, the other for protection; 
the one for the contraction of American influence, the other 
for its expansion; the one has been forced to abandon every 
position taken on the great issues before the people, the other 
has held and vindicated all. 

In experience, the difference between Democracy and Re¬ 
publicanism is that one means adversity, while the other 
means prosperity; one means low wages, the other means 
high; one means doubt and debt, the other means confidence 
and thrift. 

In principle, the difference between Democracy and Repub¬ 
licanism is that one stands for vacillation and timidity in 
government, the other for strength and purpose; one prom¬ 
ises, the other performs; one finds fault, the other finds work. 

The present tendencies of the two parties are even more 
marked by inherent differences. The trend of Democracy 
is toward socialism, while the Republican Party stands for 
a wise and regulated individualism. Socialism would destroy 
wealth. Republicanism would prevent its abuse. Socialism 
would give to each an equal right to take; Republicanism 
would give to each an equal right to earn. Socialism would 
offer an equality of possession which would soon leave no 
one anything to possess; Republicanism would give equality 
of opportunity which would assure to each his share of a 
constantly increasing sum of possessions. In line with this 
tendency the Democratic Party of to-day believes in govern¬ 
ment ownership, while the Republican Party believes in gov¬ 
ernment regulation. Ultimately Democracy would have the 
nation own the people, while Republicanism would have the 
people own the nation. 

Upon this platform of principles and purposes, reaffirming 
our adherence to every Republican doctrine proclaimed since 
the birth of the party, we go before the country asking the 
support not only of those who have acted with us heretofore, 
but of all our fellow citizens who, regardless of past political 





difference, unite in the desire to maintain the policies, per¬ 
petuate the blessings and make secure the achievements of a 
greater America. 

PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 
FOR 1910. 

I he Republicans of Pennsylvania, through their chosen 
representatives in convention assembled, standing upon the 
magnificent record of a party noted for promptness of per¬ 
formance rartier than for profusion of promise, glorying in 
its unparalleled success in the administration of State and 
National affairs, and looking forward to continued achieve¬ 
ment, make these declarations:— 

The hands of time need be turned back but thirteen short 
years to point to the termination of a Democratic National 
administration, which had covered a never-to-be-forgotten 
period of financial disaster and industrial idleness and distress. 
These thirteen years of Republican supremacy will stand 
in history as a period of prosperity, progress and growth 
unequalled in the history of nations. 

PRESIDENT TAFT. 

We heartily indorse and commend the administration of 
President William H. Taft, which, less than sixteen months 
old, is unique in its record of accomplishment. He has, in 
his own way, carried forward and developed the policies of 
William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, while enforcing 
his own and those in favor of which the party has in National 
platform declared. With unwearying patience and gentleness 
of manner, but with great firmness of purpose and unyielding 
determination, he will, by the time the gavel falls at the close 
of the present session of Congress, have succeeded in securing 
the enactment into law of more important recommendations 
than any other President has ever secured within so brief a 
time after his inauguration. Among this legislation may be 
mentioned the revision of the tariff; the bill for the more 
pomplete regulation and control of railroads; the establish¬ 
ment of postal savings banks; the creation of a bureau of 
mines; the punishment of the white slave traffic; the creation 
of a tariff board; the abolition of the immunity bath; the 





establishment of business methods in various government de¬ 
partments; legislation for the conservation of our natural re¬ 
sources; the creation of a Commerce Court; providing for the 
investigation of railway accidents and monthly reports of the 
same; important Legislation amending and extending the laws 
requiring the use of safety appliances for common carriers; 
the passage through the House of a bill providing a com¬ 
plete constitution for the government of Porto Rico, in pur¬ 
suance of his special message, and conferring* citizenship ac¬ 
cording to the promise of the party platform,.and the addition ■ 
of two stars to the flag. 

We also call especial attention to his prompt and effective 
intervention to prevent the arbitrary increase of railway rates; 
his faithful and impartial enforcement of the anti-trust laws; 
his enforcement of the law against illegal dealing in stocks 
through the instrumentality of what are commonly termed 
“bucket shops”; the conviction of the perpetrators of the so- 
called sugar frauds upon the Government; and the indictment 
of those engaged in unlawfully cornering and artificially ad¬ 
vancing the price of cotton and necessarily of cotton goods, 
which enter to so large an extent into the expenses of every 
American family. 

SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN. 

We cordially approve the activity and influence of our Sen¬ 
ators and Representatives in Congress in assisting to accom¬ 
plish the legislation above referred tQ and the enactment of 
many other beneficial laws, and rejoice that the growing cus¬ 
tom of continuing capable men in office has resulted in greatly 
increasing the power and influence of our delegation in Con¬ 
gress. 

THE TARIFF. 

We believe that the.tariff bill recently enacted is in accord 
with the Republican policy expressed in its last National plat¬ 
form “to preserve, without excessive duties, the market 
against foreign competition to which American manufac¬ 
turers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to main¬ 
tain the high standard of living of the wage-workers of this 
country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the pro- 


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tective system. Since the passage of that bill the wages 
of employees in this country have been increased more than 
five hundred millions of dollars per annum. In a few in- 
-stances the tariff on luxuries was increased, but on other 
articles the revision was downward. No increase in the 
price of the common necessities of life can honestly be attrib¬ 
uted to the tariff, for the duties upon them were not raised. 
We agree with President Taft that it “is the best tariff bill 
the Republican Party ever passed.” 

GOVERNOR STUART’S ADMINISTRATION. 

The administration of Governor Edwin S. Stuart, now 
drawing to a close, compels the complete approval of our 
people.. He has shown himself honest, courageous and capa¬ 
ble. He has fulfilled every promise; he has wisely and care¬ 
fully scrutinized all legislation; he has insisted upon rigid 
economy; he has caused offenders against the Commonwealth 
to be brought to justice; he has so performed the various 
and important duties oT his high office as to entitle him to 
receive from all lovers of honest and good government the 
commendation “‘Well done, good and faithful servant.” 

PARTY REGULARITY. 

It is well established that, under our form of government, 
the best results are obtained through great political parties. 
Governor Stuart was elected by the Republican Party, against 
a coalition of all its opponents. His record is a splendid vin¬ 
dication of the wisdom of party regularity and of relying 
upon party responsibility and party integrity for the success¬ 
ful administration of public affairs. The other departments 
of the Government are also being conducted in harmony with 
and upon the same plane as his. 

SUITS FOR RESTITUTION OF MONEY. 

The Republican Party hereby pledges itself to a vigorous 
and prompt prosecution to final judgment of the civil proceed¬ 
ings already instituted by the Attorney-General of the Com¬ 
monwealth and now pending in the courts to compel restitu¬ 
tion of all moneys alleged to have been illegally paid out of 
the State Treasury in connection with the completion and 





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equipment of the new capitol building, to the end that every 
guilty person may be compelled to return to the State all 
moneys fraudulently obtained. 

PUBLIC EDUCATION. 

We stand for the continuation of the wise policy which has 
built up the great system of public education which inaugu¬ 
rated by the Republican Party has made this Commonwealth 
famous and pledge ourselves to the enactment of such further 
legislation as will simplify the laws under which the public 
schools are conducted and provide for the further development 
of free public education. We favor continued liberal and 
generous appropriations for that purpose. 

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 

We recommend the continued liberal appropriations for the 
maintenance and care of the feeble and afflicted wards of 
the State and favor the extension and improvement of the 
institutions erected or in course of erection for their benefit, 
until they shall reach the highest standard of modern effi¬ 
ciency, and insist that public moneys set aside for this purpose 
shall be so safeguarded as to secure their expenditure with 
intelligence, economy and integrity. 

THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 

We call attention to the splendid warfare waged by the 
State Department of Health against the great plague of tuber¬ 
culosis and other diseases, and pledge ourselves to a con¬ 
tinuation of the liberal policy of appropriations for the further 
extension of this work, in which Pennsylvania leads the 
nation. 

PURE FOOD AND WATER. 

We favor the strict enforcement of the present salutary 
laws, enacted by Republican Legislatures for the protection 
of the food and water supplies of the people, and pledge 
ourselves to the enactment of such further legislation as ex¬ 
perience may show to be necessary along these lines. 


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ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. 

We believe the Commonwealth should continue and in¬ 
crease its appropriations for the improvement of public roads 
throughout the State, and that a progressive policy should be 
inaugurated looking toward the construction and mainte¬ 
nance of a permanent system of main highways connecting 
all of the counties with the great centres of activity and 
trade. We urge liberal encouragement to the townships in 
improving the dirt roads in the country, used daily by so great 
a proportion of the people; and pledge ourselves to endeavor 
to find ways and means to rid the State of the toll road's 
now so great a tax and burden upon the traveling public. 

THE STATE FINANCES. 

We invite attention to the fact that the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, despite its record of most generous appropria¬ 
tions to its schools, its charities, its ^enevolent institutions 
and its public works, is now, alone among the greater States, 
completely out of debt, and that the heavy burden of indebt¬ 
edness which the Republican Party found resting as a Dem¬ 
ocratic legacy upon the taxpayers of the State has been paid 
through our wise financial policies without the levy of a 
dollar of direct taxation upon the people. 

THE COAL REGIONS. 

Recognizing the menace to the inhabitants of the coal 
regions of the Commonwealth by the sinking of the surface, 
due to the removal of the coal, we favor an investigation of 
this subject to the end that a remedy therefor may be pro¬ 
vided. 

PENSIONS. 

Recognizing our deep and lasting obligation to the soldiers 
and sailors of our several wars, we most heartily urge our 
Senators and Representatives in Congress to support all pen¬ 
sion measures necessary to secure them from want in their 
declining years and increasing infirmities. 

ARBITRATION. 

We favor legislation that will lead to the’settlement of 
all labor disputes by arbitration, to the end that a better 




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understanding may be brought about between employer and 
employee, and that strikes, with their attendant losses to all 
parties, may be eliminated. 

WATERWAYS. 

To the end that the supremacy of the State of Pennsylvania 
in the manufacturing of iron and steel shall be maintained, 
we favor the appropriation of public moneys for the building 
of a canal connecting the Great Lakes and the Ohio River. 

We pledge the candidates to be this day nominated to a 
faithful and unswerving allegiance to the principles of the 
party, and to the continuance of the pure, economical and 
.wise administration of the offices to which they will be re¬ 
spectively elected in November, and commend them to the 
support of all who favor State government thus administered. 

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TENER AND UNION LABOR, 


REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR 
STRONG ADVOCATE OF ORGANIZATION 
FOR WORKINGMEN. 


Representative Tener is in hearty sympathy with the cause 
of the wage-earner. Since he entered Congress he has sup¬ 
ported every measure in the interst of labor that has come 
before that body. 

Regarding Mr. Tener’s labor record, the “Labor World” 
recently printed the following:— 

“John K. Tener, candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 
on the Republican ticket, is essentially a self-made man. He 
has ever been interested in the cause of the workingman 
and to-day classed among his very best friends are men who 
have been and are high in the ranks of labor organizations. 

“Mr. Tener’s first occupation was an errand boy and then 
an assistant shipping clerk at the mill‘of Lewis, Oliver & 
Phillips, South Side, Pittsburg, and was then advanced to 
payroll clerk. His associates were the men of the mills, and 
it was while he was employed at the plant of the Oliver’s 
at South Tenth street he formed very close friendships with 
Miles P. Humphreys, who had just retired as president of the 
Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers, then in charge of the 
puddling and muck iron departments : the late William Weihe, 
then a puddler; “Jack” Davis, a well-known boss roller, and 
M. M. Garland, all of whom were high in labor circles. 

AS A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER. 

“Mr. Tener spent most of hi$ spare* time in the mills and 
mill yards, and as a result he obtained a thorough knowledge 
of the practical end of the business. He soon mastered loco¬ 
motive engineering and was often found on the engine in 

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and about the plant, and when a regular engineer was oft* duty 
on account of sickness, he would take his place for weeks at 
a time. 

“When Mr. Tener left the industrial field to cake up base¬ 
ball he was a firm believer in organization, and during the 
closing months of 1889, he, with several other baseball 
players, joined in a movement which resulted in the Brother¬ 
hood of Baseball Players, and which had for its object the 
betterment of the conditions then imposed upon the players, 
and the extent of this move has had its effect ever since. 
Mr. Tener became a resident of Charleroi at its inception, 
and is known to nearly every man, woman and child in that 
town. 

“For several years Mr. Tener was engaged in the glass busi¬ 
ness at Buckhannon, W. Va., where only union men were em¬ 
ployed, and in all business in which he has been engaged 
or has had a controlling interest the very highest wages have 
been paid. At the beginning of the strike at the Macbeth- 
Evans glass factory at Charleroi, the men appealed to Mr. 
Tener and he was instrumental in securing a conference be¬ 
tween representatives of the workmen and their employers. 
He was again called upon during a strike at the works of the 
Charleroi Coal Company to intercede in behalf of the miners, 
and in this he was successful in assisting in an agreement 
satisfactory to both sides, and winning the praise of the 
wage-earners. 


INDORSED BY LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 

“Mr. Tener was sent to Congress with the unanimous in¬ 
dorsement of the labor organizations in the Twenty-fourth 
District, he having declared for an eight-hour law. At the 
second session of the Sixty-first Congress he introduced a 
resolution calling for an investigation of the labor conditions 
in the mills and facories in Western Pennsylvania, which 
went to the Committee on Rules, which body, as everyone 
knows, was soon after the centre of a bitter fight, resulting 
in the delay of this and other creditable proposed legislation. 
He is a firm believer in arbitration, as his close friends well 
know. 



“Mr. Tener’s political enemies have unsuccessfully endeav¬ 
ored to make political capital out of the story that when 
the Hughes 'injunction amendment was before the House of 
Representatives he was recorded as ‘not voting,’ but they 
failed to add that at that time he was paired with Repre¬ 
sentative Taylor, a Democrat of Alabama, who was absent 
from Washington, as will be shown on page 9,224 of the 
Congressional Record, and it would have been the height of 
discourtesy and dishonesty to have acted otherwise. 

“While Mr. Tener has been liberal to all local charities, 
his name has always been found among the contributors to 
the funds for the widows and children of unfortunate men 
killed in the mines and factories, and more than one home has 
been brightened as the result of his generosity.” 



COMMENT OF THE STATE PRESS. 


ISSUES AND IMPORTANCE OF CAMPAIGN DIS¬ 
CUSSED BY MEN CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE. 


The nomination of John Kinley Tener and his associates 
on the Republican ticket has the enthusiastic approval of the 
Republican press of Pennsylvania. No other class of men 
stands so close to the people as the editors of “out of town” 
newspapers. Invariably they are intimately identified with the 
interests of their several communities and are qualified to 
speak for them with more fidelity and intelligence than any 
other person. For this reason the utterances of a large 
number of such editors upon the issues of the campaign are 
presented in this text book. Many others full of commen¬ 
dation for the Republican ticket and loyalty to Republican 
principles, which it had been intended to include, are omitted 
only because of considerations of space. The following ex c 
tracts have been selected from the editorial matter in hand 
with a view to making a showing as representative in point 
of geographical distribution as possible:— 

THE REPUBLICAN RECORD. 

From the Altoona “Tribune.” 

The Republican Party has managed the affairs of Pennsyl¬ 
vania for almost fifty years: Its first Governor was Andrew 
Gregg Curtin, who was elected in October, i860, and was 
sworn into office on the following January. While on one 
or two occasions the Democrats managed to secure control 
of the Legislature on joint ballot, they failed to elect a Gov¬ 
ernor until 1882, when Robert E. Pattison secured his first 
election. He was successful again in 1890. With the excep¬ 
tion of his two terms, a Republican has occupied the Gov¬ 
ernor's chair continuously since Andrew G. Curtin took the 
oath of office, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. At 

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no time since the beginning of his administration have the 
Democrats been in control of the entire State Government. A 
Republican Legislature was chosen both times Mr. Pattison 
succeeded in defeating his Republican rival for Governor. 

It was to be expected in the course of fifty years, during 
which time the Republicans were successful by constantly 
increasing majorities, that many men who were animated by 
an absorbing love for the loaves and the fishes would grav¬ 
itate to the dominant party. Nothing succeeds like success. 
Whatever may have been true thirty or forty years ago, it 
is now the fact that many men are the owners of very elastic 
opinions upon political problems and that some are willing 
to join a party that has the confidence of the people and en- 
deavoi to win honors at its hands, largely as a matter of 
personal interest. This has unquestionably been the case in 
Pennsylvania. And when men join a party because they are 
looking out for No. i and for no loftier reason, it would not 
be surprising if some of them proved recreant to honor and 
did both the party and the State harm, if given the oppor¬ 
tunity. 

Yet an examination of the history of the State under the 
guidance of the Republican Party shows a record of almost un¬ 
exampled progress. When Andrew G. Curtin became Governor 
the Commonwealth was heavily in debt; the credit of no State in 
the entire Union was good, nor was that of the National Govern¬ 
ment; the public school system was in its infancy, the appropri¬ 
ations by the State being of the most meagre description; our great 
system of public charities was undeveloped and wretchedly ad¬ 
ministered. In the interim the debt has been wiped out, the bur¬ 
den of direct taxation of the people for State purposes removed; 
immense development witnessed in the public schools and in the 
penal and charitable institutions of the State and not one back¬ 
ward step taken. There is not a single one of the splendid Ameri¬ 
can sisterhood of States that has made more substantial progress 
in material, intellectual or spiritual things. There is not a man 
or woman anywhere in this broad domain who is less burdened 
by taxation by the State than are Pennsylvanians, or who are 
nearer the centre of modern civilization. 

In the administration of the State government the Republican 
leaders were not invariably as responsive to the desires of 


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their constituents as they should have been. But that is 
past. We have now upon our statute books a body of laws 
concerning primary and general elections unsurpassed by 
similar legislation anywhere and the people can have their 
way both at the primary and the general elections by simply 
attending the elections. We cannot conceive of any possible 
method under which voters could have more freedom or more 
power than under the existing uniform primary l,aw of this 
State. If there is any such method we would be greatly 
obliged by the particulars. The Republicans of Pennsylvania 
are not afraid to trust the people. Their nominations are 
made at regular primary elections, under State law, and their 
State delegates are chosen by the consent of thousands of voters 
instead of in secrecy and seclusion by a corporal’s guard of 
voters. 

During the past four years the State of Pennsylvania has 
been served at Harrisburg by a corps of singularly efficient 
officers. It is generally admitted that Edwin S. Stuart has 
made one of the best Governors the Commonwealth ever had. 
And yet four short years ago he was the victim of many 
envenomed shafts from the identical gentlemen who are now 
leading the newly born Keystone Party. At that time they 
were masquerading under the noble name of Lincoln, the first 
Republican President, who in his sad and stormy lifetime 
was the victim of the denunciation of precisely such re¬ 
formers. It is a matter of congratulation that these restless 
and unhappy gentlemen have dropped the name of Lincoln 
and propose to do their fighting under another name this 
year. Singularly enough, it is a name they have done their 
best during many years to bring into disrepute. So busy 
have they been during these years in maligning their mother 
State that the citizens of other Commonwealths are actually 
laboring under the delusion that Pennsylvania is prostrate 
beneath the burden of a heavy debt and her people helpless 
under the domination of a gang of desperate political pirates. 

But no matter about their name. They have undertaken 
a bootless task. The people of the Keystone State know 
the history of the years. They particularly know that they 
have been efficiently and honestly served by the representatives of 
the Republican Party who since their election have been the willing 


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servants of all the people. They realize that while the news¬ 
papers and the politicians who sought to compass the defeat 
of Governor Stuart four years ago are now silent as to him, 
they are undertaking the same game they were defeated in 
four years ago. Not for the sake of gratifying the ambition 
of gentlemen who have been discarded by the Democratic or 
the Republican Party will the citizens of Pennsylvania reject 
the organization which can point to a record of duty well 
performed during the last forty-eight years, and particularly 
during the last four years. It is not the custom of the voters 
of this great State to conduct themselves in that way. They 
have not done it in the past; they are not going to do it in 
the coming November election. A policy of State admin¬ 
istration that has incurred no important criticism from vigilant 
enemies is not likely to be rejected by Pennsylvanians for the 
sake of trying an experiment for the gratification of a few 
restless and unhappy gentlemen. 


THE SIN OF INGRATITUDE. 

From the Bellefonte “Keystmie Gazette.” 

To the man of discerning mind the effort of the Keystone Party 
produces little effect. It is but a repetition of the same maneuver 
practiced by practically the same element for lo, these many years, 
proving successful in the election of Mr. Berry to the Treasurer- 
ship of the State, and which so thoroughly imbued that gentle¬ 
man with its practicability that he has never abandoned the idea 
that the trick can be perpetually played on the people. 

But there is something like a man getting so good that he is 
good for nothing, and Mr. Berry and his Falstaffean following, 
recruited from the two great parties, have reached a condition 
when they are neither fruit nor flower. Like sparks from the 
anvil, they may attract school children by their momentary glare 
and then they are gathered up and carried out with the sweepings. 

We have profound respect for a Democrat who is honest. We 
admire him for his sincerity—yet knowing that he is sincerely 
wrong. But the average mind has little respect for a man who 
allies himself with a party as long as it is to his commercial in¬ 
terest, and then turns against' it when it refuses to hand him out 
any more favors. 




Ingratitude is considered the worst of crimes, and when Mr. 
Berry, after failing to enlist the support of Mr. Guffey (who 
vaulted him into office on the identical same plea that he is now 
using against his benefactors—that of bossism)—turns upon and 
denounces him, the selfishness and ingratitude becomes so glar¬ 
ing that it even eclipses the treachery of a'Brutus; and while 
temporarily embarrassed, after exhausting much of his substance 
in the liberal support lent to his party, the prostrate lion is as¬ 
sailed by the emboldened jackals, who are now hanging at his 
haunches. 

The men who are going up and down the State heralding the 
cry that “wrong rules the world and waiting justice sleeps,” will 
awaken to the fact that most men are moulded out of faults; that 
no organization is perfect—no, not even the Church. But what 
man would disown his mother because he discovered wrinkles 
in her face? And yet this motley crowd of malcontents strive to 
lead the public into the belief that they alone above all things 
are pure: and that by longer associating with their fellowmen they 
would become defiled; hence stand aside and with hands uplifted 
in true Pharisaical style, they thank God that they are not as other 
men. Poor deluded mortals. Give them a ladder that they may, 
like Jacob of old, ascend and be translated. 

Four years ago the plea was put forth that our present Govern¬ 
or, the Hon. Edwin S. Stuart, had been “nominated by the bosses” 
and for a purpose. The reader will no doubt remember the pur¬ 
pose named and the efforts put forth to effect his defeat. To-day 
he stands out conspicuous as one of the very best Governors we 
have ever had—the chief executive of a Commonwealth that has 
no equal in the sisterhood of States; with the debt wiped out, 
the burden of direct taxation removed, public schools immensely 
advanced, the penal and charitable institutions provided for as in 
no other State—the whole a specimen of material, intellectual 
and spiritual development. 

This is the heritage that falls to John K. Tener, a one hundred- 
point man; big of heart, and mind, and soul; a Saul in stature, 
with a clear eye, a clean hand and a clever tongue; one who has 
hewn his path through the solid rock of adversity bv dint in his 
own effort; honest, truthful and firm in the right as he sees it, 
one who has the courage of his convictions and the firmness to en¬ 
force them; steadfast, reliable; a courageous man; one who, un¬ 
like his detractors, has never turned his back on a friend or foe. 


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STEADFAST PENNSYLVANIA. 

From the Scranton “Truth.” 

The substantial welfare of its more than seven millions of 
people demands that Pennsylvania shall stand unshaken in loyalty 
to Republican principles in the coming* campaign. Not only is it 
important that the State ticket be elected by an old-time majority, 
but it is also essential that the people elect a Republican Legisla¬ 
ture, in view of the fact that it will choose a United States Sena¬ 
tor and a Republican Congress to stand by President Taft, 
whose splendid letter pleads trumpet-tongued for party har¬ 
mony and victory. 

Pennsylvania has always stood foremost as an industrial State 
in its consistent advocacy of the doctrine of protection to Ameri¬ 
can industry. In the recent revision of the tariff Senators Pen¬ 
rose and Oliver unflinchingly upheld the interests of the State 
and of its people on this vital subject, and by their efforts suc¬ 
ceeded in thwarting the free trade schemes that would have closed 
many mills and thrown thousands of workers out of employment. 

There will be need of the continuance of this sturdy defense 
of Pennsylvania’s interests in the next Congress where the as¬ 
sault on protection will be renewed under various specious pre¬ 
texts. For this reason Pennsylvania should suffer no setback in 
the Senate, and it should also elect Republican Congressmen, who 
will champion its interests in the House. 

The Democratic Congressional Committee is putting forth 
extra efforts to capture certain districts in this State, and mak¬ 
ing extravagant claims that the Democrats will have a majority of 
the next Congress. Such efforts and claims can meet with no 
sympathetic response in Pennsylvania if the people are alive to 
their own interests. 

The advance agents of delusion are abroad under various 
guises disseminating false and misleading doctrines. The object 
of their attack is the Republican administration. This should 
warn Republicans against the folly of giving countenance to any 
side-shows in this year’s campaign. Least of all can the Berry 
aggregation, that arrogated to itself the name of the Keystone 
Party, expect Republican sympathy. 

Berry was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Gov¬ 
ernor at Allentown and, when defeated, pledged his support to 



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his successful rival, Grim; but claiming afterward that he was 
swindled he set up as a rival candidate. He is simply a Demo¬ 
cratic bolter from the Allentown convention and as such has no 
status with Republicans and no claim to their votes. 

The Republican candidate for Governor, John K. Tener, is en¬ 
titled to every Republican vote in the State, and to the support 
of every man who appreciates the manly, straightforward and up¬ 
right qualities which the people have a right to expect in the chief 
executive of the Commonwealth. His election will insure to the 
people of Pennsylvania an honest, efficient and business-like ad¬ 
ministration of the office for which he was nominated, and to 
which he will be elected by a great majority, if the voters do their 
full duty in the coming campaign. 


PAINTING THE STATE BLACK. 

From the Chester “Republican.” 

Persons who know no better might be led to think from the 
writings and public utterances of the “reformers” that Pennsyl¬ 
vania is a corrupt and badly governed State, observes an 
exchange. 

The political muckrakers are forever magnifying the evils in the 
State and communities for their own selfish purposes, being wil¬ 
fully blind to the brighter legislation which Pennsylvania pos¬ 
sesses and that other States do not enjoy; they have failed to 
throw on the screen the beneficial legislation which Pennsylvania 
possesses and that other States do not enjoy, they have; failed to 
give credit for the uniform primaries law which Pennsylvania 
has had for several years while New York is striving hard to get 
one not nearly so complete; they overlook the fact that Pennsyl¬ 
vania has a law for the publication of election expenses which 
many other States do not have; they neglect to exploit the ex¬ 
cellent system of taxation whereby the corporations pay the big¬ 
gest part of the bills. 

There is a rosy side which many persons overlook in their 
excess of zeal to reform the world and bring about the millenium. 
Pennsylvania is one of the greatest and most progressive States 
in the Union, leading in many things and in others away ahead 
of many other States. 



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It would result far more beneficially were all to look on the 
brighter side occasionally and cease exaggerating the dark spots 
for purely personal ends. 

Paint the Keystone red instead of black. 


MR. BERRY MAKES A SPEECH. 

From the Oil City “Derrick.” 

Candidate Berry, of the Keystone Party, has made a speech. 
Oddly enough it was not for himself but in the interest of a 
Bryan Democrat who is running for Congress. It may be sup¬ 
posed that Berry expects to profit indirectly by some sort of sup¬ 
port from the Democratic candidate whom he has spoken for, 
but the maneuver does not please his supposed supporters of the 
new party nor the Democrats who might be expected to vote for 
the candidate for Congress. In the long run it will make small 
difiference. Berry never had a possible chance to win. He only 
wanted to enjoy the limelight and to grind an ax of his own. The 
Democratic candidate for Congress probably had no hope either 
so he will lose nothing. 

This so-called independent movement is a farce. It is headed 
by men who have been renegades for so long that no one can tell 
when they were regular. The candidate for Governor has boxed 
the political compass and has repeatedly deserted a candidate to 
whom he had promised support. It is not with the leadership of 
such men that political revolutions are brought about. There is 
no material for revolutionary sentiment in this State at this time 
and the attempt to get up a movement under the circumstances 
with the leadership selected is ridiculous. 


A BOSS-MADE TICKET. 

From the Pittston “Gazette.” 

Mr. Gibboney, who has agreed to play second fiddle to Berry 
on the Keystone ticket, says the paramount issue in the State 
campaign this year is “the restoration to the people of Pennsyl¬ 
vania of th$ government of Pennsylvania.” We had supposed, 
with a host of other Pennsylvanians, that Governor Stuart had 
been taking most excellent care of the State government and that 
it would be in good condition to turn over to Tener when the 







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proper time comes. We think so yet. But if we should grant, 
for the sake of argument, that the government of the Keystone 
State had gone astray, it would seem to us that the last persons 
who might be expected to restore it would be the Philadelphia 
combination which managed to pack the Keystone Party conven¬ 
tion with delegates of their own appointment and thus carry out 
their own sweet will in the matter of candidates. The people of 
the State certainly had nothing whatever to do with the nomina¬ 
tion of the Keystone ticket. That was a “boss” made ticket if 
ever there was one. 


THE WINNING CANDIDATES. 

From the Doylestown “Intelligencer.” 

The Republican State convention has named a ticket—Tener, 
Reynolds, Houck and Wright—that should win the hearty sup¬ 
port of every Republican and exponent of good citizenship in the 
State. The head of the ticket, Congressman John K. Tener, of 
Charleroi, Washington County, is a man who will win friends, 
as he is better known throughout the State, as he is knojvn among 
his neighbors and constituents in the Twenty-fourth Congres¬ 
sional district, where he is known as “Honest John” Tener and 
“Popular John” Tener, and as supplemented by Judge J. F. Tay¬ 
lor in placing his name in nomination, as “Level Headed John” 
K. Tener. His record is one that will appeal to the average man. 
In strife with honorable poverty he has achieved success without 
the slightest taint to his business ability or character, and is now 
recognized as the foremost citizen of Washington County. His 
success in winning the election for Congress over E. F. Acheson, 
who had served the district for many terms, is evidence of his 
popularity in the district in which he lives. Mr. Tener’s presence, 
his geniality and whole-hearted cordiality, together with his un¬ 
doubted ability as a business man will win him the cordial support 
of every Republican who desires to see the splendid administra¬ 
tion of Governor Stuart in the State continued for the next four 
years. 

For Lieutenant-Governor the convention nominated Congress¬ 
man John M. Reynolds, of Bedford County, who has made an 
excellent record in the House of Representatives and is an orator 
of unusual ability. 



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Secretary of Internal Affairs Henry Houck, known throughout 
the State as “The Grand Old Man of Lebanon/’ was renominated 
for a second term without any opposition before or in the con¬ 
vention. 

Charles Frederick Wright, of Susquehanna, who was appointed 
State Treasurer by Governor Stuart upon the death of State 
Treasurer-elect Stober, was nominated for a full term to suc¬ 
ceed himself, and his integrity and ability for the office is thor¬ 
oughly recognized. 

Until a few days before the convention there appeared to be no 
one man upon whom the choice of the convention was centered, 
but there was no doubt of the enthusiasm of the delegates for the 
nominee when named and the unanimity with which the nomina¬ 
tion was made. There is every reason to expect the ticket named 
will inspire party loyalty and success at the polls in November. 

The platform adopted was one of the most exhaustive put forth 
by the State Republicans. After glorying in the magnificent 
record of the party in fulfilling its pledges, and the splendid suc¬ 
cess of the National and State administrations it referred to the 
period of financial disaster and industrial idleness of the Demo¬ 
cratic administration of thirteen years ago. The resolutions com¬ 
mend the enactment of the recent tariff law, and the several acts 
embodied in the non-important recommendations of President 
Taft. 

On State affairs the platform deservedly endorses the adminis¬ 
tration of Governor Stuart, and points to the fact that all the 
pledges and promises on the platform on which he made his cam¬ 
paign have been carried out, and says this is good evidence as 
to what will be done by his successor, who is pledged to continue 
the work begun by Governor Stuart. 

The platform takes up the subject of continuing the wise policy 
of building up the great system of public education, and pledges 
the party to the enactment of such further legislation as will 
simplify the laws under which the public schools are conducted. 
It recommends continued liberal appropriations for the main¬ 
tenance and care of the feeble and afflicted wards of the State. 
It calls attention to the splendid work done by the Health De¬ 
partment under Dr. Dixon ; favors pure food and water, and be¬ 
lieves the Commonwealth should continue and increase the ap¬ 
propriation for the improvement of public roads. 



The platform also points to the fact that the State is free from 
debt and is the only one of the great States in that position, and 
that this has been accomplished without levying a dollar of direct 
tax on the people. It recognizes the lasting obligation to the 
soldiers and sailors and urges its Senators and Representatives 
to support all pension measures necessary to secure them from 
want. 


FOR GOVERNOR, JOHN KINLEY TENER. 

From the Philadelphia “Inquirer.” 

Ever since the primaries, indeed for weeks beforehand, the 
selection of a proper candidate for Governor on the Republican 
ticket has been discussed throughout the Commonwealth. The 
delegates elected to the State convention, the sole surviving con¬ 
vention under the general primary system, were chosen by the 
voters at the polls and left to. exercise their own judgment. 

Name after name has been canvassed and suggestion after 
suggestion has come out at various times from the counties. It 
was the early claim of the western end of the State that that sec¬ 
tion was entitled to naitie the candidate for Governor this time, 
considering that for the past eight years Philadelphia has had 
the Governorship. This claim was conceded, and therefore upon 
the western delegates devolved the primary duty of selection. 
They have made this selection. The friends of John Kinley 
Tener have pressed the good qualities of their candidate with such 
enthusiasm as to convince the convention that no mistake would 
be made in adopting their choice, and this the convention has done. 

John Kinley Tener, Representative in Congress of the Con¬ 
gressional district consisting of Washington, Lawrence and 
Beaver Counties, is the candidate of the Republican Party for 
Governor of Pennsylvania. He heads a ticket of strength upon 
which will be found two of the present State officials. C. F. 
Wright is now State Treasurer, having been appointed to the 
office by Governor Stuart to fill a vacancy caused by death. 
Henry Houck ran for Secretary of Internal Affairs four years 
ago on the Stuart ticket, and therefore has been a part of the 
Stuart administration, an administration that has been a model 
that any sister State might well envy. 

Congressman Tener is well known and is popular throughout 
Pennsylvania. Two years ago he sought the nomination for Con- 



gress in his district, and his opponent at the Republican primaries 
was Ernest F. Acheson, who, for fourteen years, had occupied a 
seat in the House and was presumed to be invincible. But Tener 
made a magnificent run, defeated Acheson for the nomination 
and carried the district at the subsequent November election by 
a plurality of 9,553 and a clean majority over the entire field in 
which four candidates were entered, a rather remarkable perform¬ 
ance. His popularity was thus shown in a practical and a con¬ 
vincing manner. 

His neighbors in the district proclaimed their faith in him by 
renominating him at the late primaries for Congress. But they 
believed that he was worthy of still higher honors, they brought 
him forward as a candidate for Governor and their claims in his 
behalf and their enthusiasm for him have been successful. The 
nomination is his. 

Mr. Tener has been placed upon a platform that tears in tatters 
the Democratic pretensions. It is a Taft platform. It firmly sup¬ 
ports the Republican administration at Washington. It accepts 
the tariff law as one that carries out Republican promises made 
at the National convention of two years ago. The Democrats in 
Pennsylvania, as elsewhere, are to make their contest upon the 
tariff very largely. They demand an immediate revision without 
giving the existing law time to prove its merits. They are ready 
and anxious to plunge the country into a business upheaval, such 
as always accompanies a general revision. 

The country needs a period of profound peace, a period free 
from all tariff disturbances. This the Republican Party as rep¬ 
resented at the Harrisburg convention and through its choice of 
candidates and through its platform insists upon. It enters the 
contest confident that the good sense of the people of Pennsyl¬ 
vania will cordially support it and thereby record its confidence 
in the Taft administration and the Taft policies. 

A serious break in Pennsylvania, if duplicated to any extent 
in other Republican States, would threaten a repetition of the 
conditions which followed the adoption of the McKinley Tariff 
Bill. We had a Democratic administration at Washington, and 
certainly the direful results of it have not so soon been forgotten. 

Throughout the Nation the Democrats, basing their hopes 
largely upon the dissensions sown by the so-called “insurgents” 
in Senate and House, and attacking the protective tariff, are 





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active and aggressive. It is necessary that Pennsylvania should 
show no weakness. We look, therefore, for an enthusiastic Re¬ 
publican campaign which will be carried into every Congressional 
and legislative district, for a United States Senatorship is in¬ 
volved as well as Representatives in the House and the State 
ticket. 


A MODEL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. 

From the Towanda “Reporter-Journal.” 

No voter who has supported the Republican Party in the 
State can find fault with the platform. It accords full rec¬ 
ognition of the large part which President Taft has had in 
recent National legislation and gives to his administration 
of the country’s affairs a warm indorsement. This was de¬ 
served, and was, of course, expected. When the votes were 
counted in 1908 it was found that Pennsylvania had given 
Mr. Taft his largest majority. This State has not wavered 
in its support of his plans and purposes, and the President 
has no firmer friends than the Republican voters of the Key¬ 
stone Commonwealth. It was entirely right that the admin¬ 
istration of Governor Stuart should receive the emphatic in¬ 
dorsement given it, and there would have been loud complaint 
from the people had this not been done. Governor Stuart 
merited it. The new tariff bill is warmly commended, and 
at the close of the paragraph dealing with this are the words: 
“We agree with President Taft that it is the best tariff bill 
the Republican Party ever passed.” The platform pledges 
the pary to a vigorous and prompt prosecution to final judg¬ 
ment of the civil proceedings already instituted by the Attor¬ 
ney-General of the State now pending in the courts to compel 
restitution of all moneys alleged to have been illegally paid 
out of the State treasury in connection with the completion 
of the new State capitol building, to the end that every guilty 
person may be compelled to return to the State all moneys 
fraudulently obtained. A good word is spoken for charitable 
institutions and attention is called to the splendid work done 
by the State Department of Health. The platform says what 
we believe is the right thing about roads and highways, as 
follows:— 



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“We believe the Commonwealth should coninue and in¬ 
crease its appropriations for the improvement of public roads 
throughout the State and that a progressive policy should be 
inaugurated looking toward the construction and maintenance 
of a permanent system of main highways connecting all of 
the counties with the great centres of activity and trade. 
We urge liberal encouragement to the townships in improving 
the dirt roads in the country, used daily by so great a pro¬ 
portion of the people; and pledge ourselves to endeavor to 
find ways and means to rid the State of the toll roads now so 
great a tax and burden upon the traveling public.” 

Attention is called to the excellent condition of the State 
finances; Senators and Representatives in Congress are urged 
to favor a liberal treament of the old soldier in the way of 
pensions; arbitration for all labor disputes is commended, and 
an appropriation of public money for the buildng of a canal 
connecting the Great Lakes with the Ohio River is favored 
The platform is an excellent one. 


THE DANGERS OF DEMOCRACY. 

From the York “Dispatch.” 

The nominees of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania 
represent all that is strong and loyal to party, all that is 
courageous and exemplary to the public. The ticket is clean 
and worthy from the candidate for gubernatorial honors down. 
John K. Tener, aspirant for the chair of State Executive, 
comes before the people with everything in his favor and 
nothing against him. The same may be said of the other 
candidates. 

The platform takes a stand on the tariff in direct opposi¬ 
tion to that of Democracy. The Republican Party of Penn¬ 
sylvania believes firmly in the new tariff law. The party 
recognizes its benefits and believes that greater good will 
result the longer it is in operation. The Democratic Party 
would at once plunge the country into industrial and com¬ 
mercial distress by revising the tariff and effecting radical 
changes. 

The Republican Party believes that some changes in the 
law are necessary. It is determined to make them, but these 






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will be brought about gradually and will not disturb busi¬ 
ness confidence. The plaform makes the direct statement 
that the tariff is not responsible for the high cost of living. 
Democracy evidently will endeavor to use the advanced cost 
of foods as a slogan. The average citizen knows that in¬ 
creased consumption and lack of supply are the main reasons 
for higher prices in many articles. Increases in wages are 
bound to affect prices also. The partial reduction in food 
cost, however, has offset in a measure the allegation that the 
tariff is to blame. 


A SPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED CANDIDATE. 

From the West Chester “Village Record/'’ 

The Republicans of Pennsylvania have a strong ticket, and 
one that every Republican can heartily support at the polls 
in November. Geographically the ticket has been skillfully 
apportioned. The man who heads the ticket, John Kinley 
Tener, of Washington County, is a splendid type of the 
wideawake, aggressive American. He began life poor, but 
by energy, perseverance, industry and thrift, he has attained 
a commanding position among the business men of the .Common¬ 
wealth. 

Mr. Tener represents in his business career a type that has 
made Pennsylvania famous. He was compelled to face life 
under unpropitious circumstances, and yet, by sheer grit, 
by rugged determination, by hard work, by patient persist¬ 
ence, fortified by native aptitude, has wrought success in the 
world’s struggle. 

Mr. Tener’s personal popularity throughout the Common¬ 
wealth, his substantial achievements in finance and business, 
his standing as a stalwart Republican and his brilliant career 
in Congress, all served to commend him to the party as 
assuring in a peculiar manner the united support of Pennsyl¬ 
vania Republicans at a time when it is necessary that the 
nation be advised as to Pennsylvania’s position. Mr. Tener 
has integrity, backbone and courage. He knows his State and 
understands its needs, and he has qualities and the ideals of duty 
which guarantee that he is worthy to succeed Edwin S. Stuart. 



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WORTHY TICKET; STRONG PLATFORM. 

From the Harrisburg “Telegraph.” 

\\ ith the harmony method and dispatch which have long 
been the admiration of its friends and the despair of its 
enemies, the Republican Party has keld its State convention, 
nominated its candidates, declared its position and dispersed, 
leaving the rostrum to those who prefer words to deeds. 

The ticket is one which every good Republican should and 
will support. John K. Tener, of Charleroi, candidate for Gov¬ 
ernor, is a young and vigorous man of high characer and rec¬ 
ognized ability. Prior to his recent appearance in the polit¬ 
ical arena as a Congressman, he had made a wide reputation 
for himself as a leader of men and a factor in the business 
world. Pennsylvania has been proud of her present business 
administration. Mr. Tener will continue its policies. 

John M. Reynolds, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, is 
not only a business man, but he is versed in the law and has 
made a fine record in Congress, where he was especially con¬ 
spicuous for his work in behalf of the old soldiers. 

Charles Fred. Wright has already made himself known as 
State Treasurer and is one of the most popular men in Penn¬ 
sylvania politics to-day. 

Henry Houck, nominated to succeed himself as Secretary 
of Internal Affairs, is a glorious heritage from a splendid 
administration. 

They are all candidates to be proud of and they have been 
sent before the voters on a platform that is a model in its 
terseness, frankness and comprehensive treatment of public 
issues. It overlooks nothing, evades nothing. It indorses 
President Taft, approves the tariff, applauds party regularity 
and compliments its “Regular” Representatives in Congress. 

Of course, both the ticket and the platform will be abused 
and misrepresented by those who make it their business to 
villify Republicanism in Pennsylvania, but we at least have 
the satisfaction of knowing that the party is pleased and that 
there will be no agitation for a second Republican conven¬ 
tion to undo the work of the first one. 

And through it all, we shall remember with particular 
pleasure two paragraphs in the platform which seem to us 







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to contain the milk in the cocoanut and to answer in a few 
words the chief arguments of the enemy. Party loyalty and 
mismanagement are the two cardinal sins of Pennsylvania 
Republicans, according to our opponents. We are too fond 
of our party and we have made a horrible mess of things 
in the State. 

“It is well established,” replies the platform, “that under 
our form of government, the best results are obtained through 
great political parties. Governor Stuart was elected by the 
Republican Party against a coalition of all its opponents. 

"We invite attention to the fact that the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania, despite its record of most generous appro¬ 
priates to its schools, its charities, its benevolent institutions 
and its public works, is now, alone among the greater States, 
completely out of debt, and that the heavy burden of indebt¬ 
edness which the Republican Party found resting as a Dem¬ 
ocratic legacy upon the taxpayers of the State has been paid 
through our wise financial policies without the levy of a 
dollar of direct taxation upon the people.” 

What more is there to be said? 


NOT A THIRD PARTY YEAR. 

From the Bellefonte “Republican.” 

Each party has its handful of kickers who would kick if 
the Angel Gabriel were to be nominated. They kick from 
force of habit. They are never satisfied unless they, and no 
others, shall rule. They won’t play unless they can have 
everything their own way. 

Some few well meaning and honest Republicans may be led 
astray by the high-sounding phrases of the grumblers. Every 
such movement catches the unwary and the small percentage 
who can be misled. The great mass of Republican voters 
in Pennsylvania, however, will not listen to the third party 
talk, for their faith is firmly planted in the Republican Party 
and they know that their party is big enough, strong enough 
and liberal enough to settle its own affairs. 

Behind the third party circus may be seen the same old 
crowd of self-branded reformers, the same outfit who in 1906 



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under the false label of reform tried to wreck the Republican 
Party in order that they might come into control. This and 
this only is the inspiration of the crowd in Philadelphia who 
are the real instigators of the third party proposition. This 
crowd want to own a Governor. They want to own the 
Republican party in Pennsylvania. They want control of 
the offices, so that patronage may be handed out to a select 
few who to-day are and have for years past been enemies 
of the Republican party and all that its honored name implies. 

This is the outfit that manipulated things in 1906 to try 
and defeat Governor Stuart, one of the finest men in the world 
and one of the best Governors in the history of Pennsylvania. 

All honor to the man or men who try to better the condi¬ 
tion of their fellow men. This, and nothing short of it, is 
reform. For they who cry reform that they may profit at 
the expense of their fellow men, no condemnation can be 
too severe. Selfishness is the keynote to the third party talk. 
It was the keynote to the fight waged against Governor 
Stuart. It is always the keynote to all that is inspired by the 
fake reformer. 

The Republican Party has nominated for Governor a man 
who has by sheer merit advanced himself to his present proud 
position. John K. Tener is a self-made man. He is young, 
clean, honest and a stanch Republican. He comes from that 
old school of men whose word is their bond and who may be 
trusted with the interests of others. He is not the choice of 
the fake reformers, for he holds honor and principle above 
self advancement. He is the choice of true Republicans and 
they will elect him in November. 


TENER AS A VOTE GETTER. 

From the Reading “Times;” 

Even if the Democrats of Pennsylvania had nominated the 
strongest man in the party for Governor, it would have 
availed them nothing, for the ticket named by the Repub¬ 
licans, which is strong at the present, will gain a great deal 
more strength between now and the fall election. When 
John K. Tener, the nominee for Governor, starts a campaign 
tour of the State he will prove to be the best vote getter that 





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has come before the voters of the Keystone State for years. 
His open, frank countenance has honesty written all over it, 
and there is a firmness that indicates decision, and decision 
of the right sort. Mr. Tener is a giant in physical and mental 
stature, and Pennsylvania will never boast of a more dis¬ 
tinguished looking Chief Magistrate. The nominee is a suc¬ 
cessful business man of sterling integrity. He is a banker 
and a Congressman, and enjoys the distinction of being Past 
Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks of the United States. 

The nominee for Lieutenant-Governor, John M. Reynolds, 
of Bedford County, will also lend strength to the State ticket. 
Mr. Reynolds is an eloquent orator and will prove a strong 
campaigner. 

C. Fred. Wright, of Susquehanna County, the nominee for 
State Treasurer, is a man of most excellent qualities, and 
has the respect and confidence of the entire Northern Tier, 
where he is well known, he having been engaged in the 
banking business in Susquehanna County for many year^. 
He is well fitted for the office and will be a tower of strength 
to the ticket. 

The people of Berks County need to be told nothing of 
Henry Houck, of Lebanon, renominated for the office of Sec¬ 
retary of Internal Affairs, for he is really one of them, and 
his frequent visits to this city have gained him a wide 
acquaintance locally. 


THE TICKET AND THE PLATFORM. 

From the Pittsburg “Gazette Times.” 

On a platform that breathes the spirit of fidelity to party 
and principles, the Republican State Convention at Harris¬ 
burg nominated an unbeatable ticket for submission to pop¬ 
ular approval at the polls in November. The convention was 
void of dissension and contentions, and though the two or 
three days previous to its assembling were characterized by 
the usual preliminary rivalry for advantage or preference, 
it was apparent in the proceedings and in the expressions by 
representative Republicans that there was not the slightest 
doubt of a triumphant termination of the campaign during 
the coming fall, 




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The ticket is one that ought to appeal to the undivided 
support of all elements of the Republican Party and to every 
section of the State. Geographically it is skillfully apportioned. 
For the first time in seventy-five years Washington County 
has the honor of supplying the Governor, in the person of 
that splendid specimen of Western Pennsylvania enterprise 
and energy, John Kinley Tener, whose boyhood and early 
manhood were spent in Pittsburg. Among people in this 
part of the State, Mr. Tener needs no introduction, encomium 
or recommendation. Both he and the family, of which he 
is such a distinguished member, are well known in business 
circles and enjoy the confidence and respect of a wide ac¬ 
quaintanceship. Mr. Tener represents in his career a type which 
has made the Pittsburg region famous—the boys who have 
been compelled to face life under unpropitious circumstances, 
and yet by sheer grit, by rugged determination, by hard work, 
by patient persistence, fortified by native aptitude, have 
wrought success in the world’s struggle. Not yet through 
his first term in Congress from the Twenty-fourth District, 
Mr. Tener in that arena, where genuine capacity is the deter¬ 
mining test, had already proved his ability so satisfactorily 
that only recently his constituency renominated him. His 
abounding personal popularity throughout the Common¬ 
wealth, his substantial achievements in finance and business, 
and his standing as a stalwart Republican, all served to 
commend him to the party as assuring in a peculiar manner 
the united support of Pennsylvania Republicans at a time when 
it is necessary that the nation be advised as to Pennsylvania’s 
position. Mr. Tener has integrity, backbone and courage. 
He knows his State and understands its needs and oppor¬ 
tunities; he has qualities and the ideals of duty which guar¬ 
antee that he is well worthy to succeed to the responsible 
office so acceptably filled by Edwin S. Stuart. 

Congressman John M. Reynolds, of Bedford, the nominee 
for Lieutenant-Governor, is one of the most capable men 
in the public life of Pennsylvania. The name of Henry 
Houck, of Lebanon, renominated for Secretary of Internal 
Affairs, is a household word throughout the Commonwealth. 
The nomination of Charles Frederick Wright, of Susquehanna 
County, State Treasurer by appointment, for election to that 





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office, rounds out the list with another strong man. These 
three candidates, their qualifications and their title to the ap¬ 
proving consideration of Pennsylvania Republicans, will be 
discussed more fully by “The Gazette Times” later on. 

The platform is no less significant at this juncture than the 
ticket. Two of the four candidates are members of Con¬ 
gress, and with their Republican colleagues from this State 
in the House of Representatives they have been consistent 
and loyal supporters of President Taft, his policies and his 
administration. Take, then, the unreserved indorsement of 
the President, and note that it presents the best and most 
compact summary of his administration, both in legislation 
and executive acts, that has been embraced in any State plat¬ 
form since March 4, 1909. Observe also the protective tariff 
plank, the unequivocal indorsement of the Payne-Aldrich 
bill and the statement that wage increases amounting to more 
than $500,000,000 have become effective since its passage. 
Read in this connection the declaration in favor of party 
regularity and the suggestion as to how to secure the best 
results under our form of government through political parties 
and the wisdom of relying upon party responsibility. Thus 
you understand the position of the Republican Party in 
Pennsylvania, as defined through its accredited representa¬ 
tives, on the great issues of National importance and the 
much-mooted problem of insurgency precipitated by Middle 
West malcontents. If “The Gazette Times” is not mistaken, 
before the next Presidential campaign opens other Republican 
States will be glad to pay Pennsylvania the compliment of 
patterning after yesterday’s platform in this respect. 

In its treatment of State questions the platform is equally 
frank. Suits for restitution of money fraudulently drawn 
from the State Treasury in connection with the capitol build¬ 
ing are to be pressed. The policy with respect to good 
roads is to be broadened. The advanced methods of the 
State touching public schools, charitable institutions, public 
health and pure food and water are to be maintained and 
even more generous encouragement is to be given. And 
the party favors legislation securing to employers and employees 
arbitration under the law. 


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With such a ticket and such a platform the Republicans 
of Pennsylvania have every incentive to the rolling up of 
an old-fashioned Pennsylvania majority. 


CREDITABLE TICKET AND PLATFORM. 

From the Connellsville “Courier.” 

The ticket nominated and the platform adopted by the 
Republican State Convention is creditable to the Republicans 
of Pennsylvania and deserving of their cordial and earnest 
support. Political pessimists and visionary reformers will 
tell us that one was machine made and the other a mere set 
of sounding and meaningless phrases, but the fact remains 
that the personality of the ticket is above reproach and the words 
of the platform are justified by the deeds of the party. 

The Republican State platform indorses the administration 
of President Taft and the Republican Congress and points 
out the fact that they have redeemed Republican platform 
pledges to the letter; disposes of the Democratic criticisms 
of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff by calling attention to the fact 
that since its passage wages have increased $500,000,000 per 
annum. 'That no increase in the necessities of life can be 
attributed to the workings of the law and that it is “the 
best tariff bill the Republican 'Party ever passed”; praises 
Governor Stuart’s honest and efficient administration, and 
points out that it is a vindication of party regularity and the 
integrity of party responsibility; promises that the efforts 
of the Republican administration will be devoted to securing 
restitution of the money filched from the State by the Capitol 
graft gang; pledges continual liberal support to the public 
schools and charitable institutions, the enactment of further 
legislation designed to protect the public health, purify our 
food and water and extend our system of good roads; invites 
attention to the fact that despite liberal appropriations for 
these and other public purposes, Pennsylvania is the only 
great State in the Union which is free from debt; favors in¬ 
vestigation and proper remedy for the dangers to communi¬ 
ties caused by the removal of coal and attendant dangers to 
the surface by reason of the sinking of the ground; urges 
Congress to be liberal in its pension policies; favors arbitra- 






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tion as a means of settling wage disputes; advocates the 
appropriation of public moneys for the construction of the 
canal connecting the Ohio River with the Great Lakes; 
pledges the candidates nominated on the Republican ticket 
to faithful and unswerving allegiance tc party principles and 
a continuance of wise and economical and honest admin¬ 
istration, and commends the ticket to the support of those 
who favor State government thus administered. 

There is in neither the ticket nor the platform anybody 
or anything of which the Republicans need be ashamed or 
to which they cannot conscientiously subscribe; in short, 
the work of the Harrisburg convention makes the nomination 
of an independent ticket wholly unnecessary. We will doubt¬ 
less be told that the ticket was boss made, the platform boss 
dictated and the convention boss ridden; but the cry of boss 
is as old as American politics, and perhaps much more ancient. 
Longfellow’s potter summed up the situation as it has existed 
world without end, when he sung:— 

Turn, turn my wheel! Turn ’round and ’round 
Without a pause, without a sound; 

So spins the flying world away! 

This clay, well mixed with marl and sand, 

Follows the motion of my hand; 

For some must follow and some command, 

Though all are rrtade of clay. 


NO REPUBLICAN DEFECTION. 

From the Indiana “Messenger.” 

If there is any defection among the Republicans in this State 
it has yet to be discovered. There are a few, calling themselves 
Republicans, who scarcely, if ever, support a Republican ticket 
who are in the Berry camp, and there will be doubtless a few more 
who will be deluded into supporting the former State Treasurer, 
but they are only a drop in the bucket. 

There is absolutely no reason why a Republican should not 
support his party’s candidates in this State this fall. Mr. Tener 
is universally conceded to be a man of fine character and high 
ability, who will give the State a creditable administration as 
Governor, and we have not yet heard a reason worthy of a 



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moment’s consideration why a Republican should vote against 
him. In all the qualities that seem to be demanded of the incum¬ 
bent of the office of Governor, he stands head and shoulders above 
either of the other gentlemen who are aspiring to the office. 

Messrs. Grim and Berry are both very amiable gentlemen and 
doubtless honest in their intentions, but they are not of the Guber¬ 
natorial calibre. Berry is a man very unsettled in his ways of 
thinking and would make a very flighty and unsafe executive. 
This is the judgment of men who recognize his good qualities 
but deplore his vagaries. 

Mr. Tener is known, on the other hand, as an exceedingly safe 
and level-headed man, both in business and in public affairs. His 
experience in public life has not been extensive, but it has been 
sufficient to win for him the highest praises from those who have 
watched his career. He is a bright and shining example of the 
successful business man entering the political arena, of which we 
have had many notable examples in recent years. Thus he has 
the confidence of those who like to see the affairs of State admin¬ 
istered in a business-like way and he will get the votes of hun¬ 
dreds of thousands who will feel that with him in the Guber¬ 
natorial chair there will be a continuation of the wise and efficient 
methods that have characterized the administration of Governor 
Stuart. 


DEMOCRATIC HOPES FADING. 

From the Philadelphia “Press.” 

A Democratic majority in the next House at Washington is 
not talked about as it was. Two months ago it was predicted. 
It is treated as a possibility now—nothing more. 

The Democratic Party has no platform to offer. There is no 
Democratic policy presented by the party as a whole. It had none 
in Congress. It could not hold together even on the tariff. It 
split on railroad legislation. Democrats who are reorganizing the 
party in the East want to end legislation on railroads and corpo¬ 
rations and have free trade tariff. Democrats in the West, as 
Governor Folk, of Missouri, complains, are joining the Republi¬ 
can organization. In Nebraska the party is split by Bryan. In 
Tennessee Governor Patterson has divided it. Growing indus¬ 
tries in the Atlantic and Gulf Southern States create protection 





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votes. No commanding Democratic leader presents any leading 
issue. 

The Republican Party is still in the full tide of the work laid 
out in the Chicago platform and President Taft’s speeches two 
years ago. More of this platform has gone into legislation than 
in any national platform in years. As much remains to be ac¬ 
complished. Not more than half the measures President Taft 
proposed in his message last December have been passed. 

A year ago men were predicting that President Taft could not 
bring Congress to pass the railroad, corporation and public land 
laws he had promised in the campaign. The railroad laws are 
nearly all passed, though some legislation remains. The public 
land laws have still most of them to be passed. But one has been 
enacted, and under this nearly thrice the area of Pennsylvania, 
over 80,000,000 acres, have been withdrawn. 

New land laws have to be enacted to deal with this great area 
and the coal lands of Alaska. No greater task has been attempted 
by any Congress than the problem of providing for opening this 
great area to private enterprise without the sacrifice of private 
rights. The tax on the net income of corporations is but the be¬ 
ginning of corporate legislation. The decisions of the Supreme 
Court on the great trust cases before it are certain to be followed 
by need for legislation. 

President Taft on these great issues, of vast and far-reaching 
efifect on the future, has a definite policy already outlined. He 
has shown himself successful beyond other Presidents in carry¬ 
ing his policy through Congress to the statute book. Old influ¬ 
ences that were opposing new action, new legislation and a policy 
of advance and development are disappearing. The relentless 
logic of events which has placed on the) statute book so much of 
President Taft’s policy is preparing the way for more. Under 
President Taft’s steady demand for advancing legislation, and in 
great measure because of this demand, the House has become 
more free in its action and the Senate more ready to respond to 
public and popular demand. 

These great changes in progress, some the work of design and 
some’the work of time and years, which no man can halt, are 
opening before the country the prospect of a definite legislative 
programme dealing with public lands, corporations and what re¬ 
mains to be done on the railroad isspes, This definite and visible 


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advance has the approval of the Republican Party East and West. 
It was proposed by President Taft as a candidate for the Presi¬ 
dency. It will be completed by him as President, and a Republican 
House elected next November is indispensable to this task. More 
and more the country as a whole sees that the only prospect of 
action, of national development and of the solution of these seri¬ 
ous and pressing problems must come from the Republican Party, 
and from it alone. 


THE KEYSTONE PARTY’S CAMPAIGN. 

From the Kittaning “Tribune.” 

None of the few “independent” papers that are support¬ 
ing Berry and his associates have a word to say against 
the Democratic candidates on either the State, district or 
county tickets. Now doesn’t it look as if the real object of 
the organization of the Keystone “party” was to draw votes 
away from the Republican candidates in the hope of electing 
Democratic members of the Legislature and Congress? 

The mud batteries of the disgruntled and pigmy politicians 
are all turned on Mr. Tener and his*associates on the Repub¬ 
lican ticket. The same rot that is being used against Tener 
was used against Stuart four years ago, and every person 
in the State knows that Edwin S. Stuart is the best Governor 
Pennsylvania has had in years. Tener is a clean man and has 
made good at everything he has undertaken. And he is going 
to be elected. 


BOLTING CANDIDATE NOT A FACTOR. 

From the Hollidaysburg “Register.” 

Loyal Republicans are not bothering themselves about the new 
Keystone Party which is headed by a disgruntled Democrat who 
went into a State convention as an avowed candidate for Governor 
and was beaten in the contest. If Berry had been selected as the 
candidate for first place on the Democratic ticket no sane person 
could be induced to believe he would have countenanced any bolt¬ 
ing of the ticket, and his action in seeking the nomination from a 
parcy which was evolved from the discontented and disappointed 
office seekers of all parties plainly indicates the character of the 
man. He is not a factor in the contest. 








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SUPPORTED BY A UNITED PARTY. 

From the Meadville “Tribune Republican.” 

The ticket nominated at the Republican State Convention 
at Harrisburg on June 22 & has received the indorsement of a 
united party. Those who at first sought to discredit it have 
found that they can give no good reason why it should not 
be acceptable to every Republican in the State, and as the 
time approaches when the votes are to be cast it becomes 
apparent that it will receive hearty support in every part of 
the State. 

Numerous names had been discussed for the Governorship 
before the meeting of the State convention, but with the 
withdrawal of Lieutenant-Governor Murphy and the decision 
of President Taft that he could not spare Secretary Knox 
from his cabinet, there remained but one name for which there 
had been any concrete movement, that of Representative 
Tener. Most of the delegates to the convention had been 
chosen at the primaries to use their own judgment when they 
should arrive in the convention, and with an active propa¬ 
ganda in operation in fayor of a man whom all believed to be 
eminently worthy of the nomination and well fitted to be 
the standard bearer of the party, the convention had only to 
meet to find that the trend toward Tener for Governor was almost 
unanimous. 

The men named on the Republican State ticket are an in¬ 
telligent, conscientious, earnest and able lot of citizens, and 
they can be relied upon to give the State an honest, clean 
and able administration when the direction of its affairs is 
given into their hands. The pledges made and the attitude 
expressed by the candidates has been such as to win the 
confidence and respect of the voters of the State. 

John K. Tener, the Republican candidate for Governor, 
has made an especially good impression. He is a steady, 
reliable, careful man, who, like the present incumbent of that 
office, the Hon. Edwin S. Stuart, is modest and retiring, but 
strong and determined. This was brought out strongly in 
his speech accepting the nomination, when he declared that 
he would stand squarely upon the platform adopted by the 
convention which nominated him. Nothing which he could 


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have said could have been better or more comprehensive. 
That platform is an excellent one, dealing with all the 
issues now before the people of the State, and setting forth 
a comprehensive and progressive programme to be followed 
by the party during the next four years. This in plain words 
and unqualified statements Mr. Tener pledges himself faith¬ 
fully to carry out. He could have given no better indication 
of his fitness had he spoken all day, or had he tried to bring 
into play the wiles of all the orators and the acumen of all the 
statesmen who have ever lived. 

Under our present Governor, the able and statesmanlike 
Edwin S. Stuart, the Republican administration has given the 
Commonwealth a model government. A continuation of its 
high motives will be expected. While the Democratic party 
in Pennsylvania is at present in a decided condition of demor¬ 
alization, it has taken an attitude on public questions that 
cannot be ignored. There is nothing in either of the Demo¬ 
cratic tickets to commend itself to Pennsylvania voters, but 
their appeals for popular support have so distorted the issues 
that it would be a mistake for Republicans to go to sleep 
with the idea that everything will come out all right in the 
end without any effort. 

The Democrats are, as usual, in the throes of a bitter fight, 
virtually at each others throats and hurling charges right and 
left. 


WILL BERRY GIVE UP THE SHIP? 

From the Mercer “Dispatch.” 

The Keystone Party of Pennsylvania has made a poor 
start. Real reformers, men who aim at better conditions for 
principle’s sake rather than for office or notoriety, were not 
perceptibly in evidence at the Philadelphia convention. In¬ 
stead there was a shopworn group of political dyspeptics 
whose very faces belong to the gallery of gloom. The con¬ 
vention was dominated by the permanent Grievance Com¬ 
mittee of the State, professional deplorers and denouncers, 
several of whom are more distinguished for giving Pennsyl¬ 
vania a bad name on the stump and in the press than for 
anything else except aspiring to some place on the public 






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payroll. Then, too, there is a singular aloofness among news¬ 
papers which aforetime have joined in every movement to 
defeat the Republican Party. These being of Democratic 
pretensions, have discovered that chickens come home to 
roost, and they do not relish following Mr. Berry into a cam¬ 
paign which is directed in part against the Democratic nom- 
uiee for Governor. It is recognized also that in forcing their 
handpicked candidate upon a convention which represented 
but 77 per cent, of the counties in the State, the Berry people 
lost sight of other considerations that might have been of 
advantage. 

So that, altogether, the Keystone Party gets under sail 
hopelessly waterlogged. Its captain, moreover, is suspected 
of privatering, most of its crew were slaughtered and its 
under officers are known to be capable of scuttling the ship 
at the first opportunity if they discern an incentive to do so. 


1910 A REPUBLICAN YEAR. 

From the Curwensville “Mountaineer.” 

To say that the work which has just been completed will 
aid the Republican Pary in the campaign which will soon 
open is to state the situation mildly. Almost every import¬ 
ant measure which was on the party programme on the first 
Monday of December, 1909, was on the statue book by the 
last .Saturday in June, 1910. 

The roll call of the measures enacted within the last few 
months will make the work of the Republican campaign 
orator this year easy and pleasant. Railway legislation, 
Statehood for the last of the Territories, a postal savings 
bank, land withdrawal in the interest of National conserva¬ 
tion, publicity of campaign contributions, creating a bureau of 
mines, providing funds for reclamation, extending the activ¬ 
ities of the tariff board and a commission to formulate plans 
for the more economic administration of Federal Government, are 
among the acts of large consequence which were passed in 
the last session which has just closed. Taken in connection 
with the tariff act, which was passed in the extra session, 
the work of the Sixty-first Congress thus far makes a story 



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which the party s spellbinders will find to be very effective 
on the stump. 

The tone of hopefulness which the Democratic newspapers 
and politicians had a month ago is dropped. No Democrat 
is now predicting victory for his party in November. The 
rally which was made in the last ten or twelve days of the 
session was notable for its decisiveness. The party has had 
good leadership in Senate, House and White House. All the 
Republican chieftains have pulled together with courage and 
intelligence. Once more the party is aggressive, confident 
and enthusiastic. The dubious outlook which industry saw a 
few weeks ago, and which registered itself on the exchanges, 
has been banished. The prospect for 1910 will be a great 
year for the Republican Party and for the country. 


ORGANIZATION IN POLITICS. 

From the Media “Record.” 

The conditions that surround the status of things political 
in Pennsylvania are peculiar, not to say unique. In addition 
to the two leading parties—the Republican and the Demo¬ 
cratic—we have a third and newly born party in the field— : 
the Keystone—asking for popular support upon the grounds 
that the two old parties are controlled by leaders and organ¬ 
izations unworthy of public confidence. If that be so the 
third and new party will be similarly controlled by precisely 
the same agencies as are found within the pale of the older 
parties, for no party can exist or be cohesive for the fur¬ 
therance of governmental purposes without organization. 
Throughout the ramifications of civilized conditions, society 
—in a broad and concrete sense—is honeycombed with or¬ 
ganization. Without it chaos would reign and civil govern¬ 
ment itself would degenerate into anarchy. If party organiza¬ 
tions go wrong it is because the mass of voters composing 
them are listless and apathetic. Republican rule rests upon 
popular sovereignty, but if sovereign citizens abdicate their 
functions to rule and neglect their political duty and obliga¬ 
tions, popular sovereignty becomes a nullity and an iridescent 
dream, beautiful to look upon, but worthless as a factor in 
the maintenance and perpetuity of Republican institutions. 



It makes little difference under what party banner the citi¬ 
zenship of a free State enrolls itself, if the mass of its members 
is derelict in the fulfillment of its political duties and obliga¬ 
tions, for out of such conditions are evolved the debasement 
of party aims and purposes of selfish aggrandizement. The 
present primary election law of Pennsylvania gives to every 
citizen the clear right to evolve representative candidates, 
and to formulate platforms, as a basis upon which to con¬ 
duct governmental affairs by and through party organization, 
based upon majority rule. That law reduces to a minimum 
the power of party machinery and maximizes the power of 
the individual citizen to VOTE HIS CONVICTIONS of 
public duty. But no satutory enactment, no rule of party 
organization, can compel a derelict citizen, who, by his supine¬ 
ness and apathy, reduces himself to a political nonentity, to 
rise to the true dignity and status of sovereign citizenship, 
involving the clear right to choose his own rulers and to for¬ 
mulate sound, just and equitable principles of public policy. 

Free government—based upon popular sovereignty—means 
government by a majority of its citizenship, determined by 
and through party action. This system possesses elements of 
weakness, but that is because all human agencies lack per¬ 
fection, for the reason that perfection does not exist; never 
has and never will exist among men. But that is not any 
reason why a free people should not earnestly and zealously 
strive for the moral, mental and sofcial uplift of the masses 
by and through governmental action. And it is ever well to 
remember that all such effort must come by and through 
MAJORITY RULE. That is the bed-rock, fundamental 
principle upon which Republican institutions must ever 
rest. Any force or agency that assails that cardinal principle 
of popular sovereignty is alien to the genius, spirit and pur¬ 
pose of Republican institutions. 

This brings us to a consideration of Win. H. Berry’s can¬ 
didacy for Governor of this State on the Keystone ticket. 
Mr. Berry has for a few years past been allied with the Dem¬ 
ocratic Party. Democracy, whether viewed in its broadest 
or partisan sense, means the rule of the majority. Under that 
party’s auspices Mr. Berry became a candidate for nomina¬ 
tion to the Governorship of Pennsylvania under the party 


rules and regulations pertaining thereto and subject to the 
conditions imposed by the State primary election law. He 
made his appeal at the spring primary election and at the 
ensuing convention at Allentown, and was defeated by a 
majority of about ninety votes in the latter. Though pro¬ 
claimed as “the logical candidate for Governor,” the nominat¬ 
ing convention thought otherwise and by a decisive vote made 
his opponent—Senator Grim, of Buck£ County—the party’s 
choice for Governor. After the convention’s adjournment Mr. 
Berry pledged his support to the ticket nominated at Allen¬ 
town and later repeated that pledge to Senator Grim. That 
decision was in line and harmony with equity and justice, 
and also with Jeffersonian Democracy. He had appealed to 
the arbitrament of a party vote at the primary election and 
by a big majority in the convention was defeated. Later 
he acquiesced in his defeat and then, a few days later, forgot 
or cast aside his pledges and was found in the very forefront 
in the organization of a new party—the Keystone Party— 
with himself as a candidate for Governor. To state fairly the 
proposition surrounding Mr. Berry’s attitude as a Democratic 
candidate stamps his action as one of party perfidy. In the 
broader view that teaches that the cardinal principle of De¬ 
mocracy is to bow to the supremacy of MAJORITY RULE, 
Mr. Berry’s attitude is a flagrant defiance of the popular will, 
as expressed within party lines. By all considerations of 
party fealty ; of justice and fair play, and of deference to pop¬ 
ular sovereignty, Mr. Berry was morally bound to submit to 
the will of the majority. That he did not do so places him¬ 
self outside the pale of true Jeffersonian Democracy and ab¬ 
solves every Democrat from any prior claim Mr. Berry may 
have had for his support. His action proves he is more of a 
Berry Democrat than a follower of Jeffersonian Democracy 
and will be so viewed by the rank and file of the party. And, 
in view of all the facts and coincidents surrounding his new 
role as a Keystone reformer, “The Record’’ firmly believes 
it will take the lens of a powerful microscope to find the 
size of the Democratic vote cast for him at the coming fall 
election. 

Finally, Mr. Berry boasts of the big vote he is going to 
get from the Republican Party. Mr. Berry is quite optimistic 


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as regards his candidacy, and this reminds us of the bumble 
bee, which is always biggest at birth. Mr. Berry’s pluralities 
are always biggest before election, but we verily believe he 
will be elected to stay at home by a very handsome majority. 


CANDIDATE GRIM TO CANDIDATE BERRY. 

From the New Bloomfield “People’s Advocate and Press.” 

State Senator Grim, Democratic candidate for Governor, is 
paying his respects at frequent intervals to the Hon. W. H. Berry, 
accusing him of treachery, breach of faith, etc. Grim hits the 
mark every time. Berry promised to stand by the Democratic 
nominee at Allentown, whoever he might be, but his intolerable 
itch for office led him readily to assent to take the nomination for 
Governor by the so-called Keystone Party. Berry is now address¬ 
ing religious meetings for political purposes—to boost his candi¬ 
dacy. 


THE SITUATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

From the Butler “Citizen.” 

When we look over the whole field, recognizing, as we do, that 
there are many things both in the State and nation that need cor¬ 
rection, and which we would gladly see corrected, we are forced 
to the belief that the most promising agency of correction is the 
Republican Party, and that the place to correct them is in that 
party. 

Look over the acts either in State or nation that have been 
for the betterment and uplift of the people and they were written 
there by the Rpublican Party, which has been the progressive 
party of the past. 

It seems to us that after all the red fire is burned, all the 
speeches made and all the political strings have been pulled, and 
the sovereign voters of Pennsylvania shall have registered their 
desire in November, the Republican ticket will have been elected, 
and John K. Tener will proceed as he says he will, to continue the 
Stuart policies and administer the government as his predecessor 
has done, which administration has admittedly been clean, capable 
and business-like. 




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WORK FOR REPUBLICAN SUCCESS. 

From the Media “Ledger.” 

It behooves every member of the party—every old man in¬ 
trenched by years of experience in the principles and faith of the 
party, and every young man full of enthusiasm and looking for¬ 
ward to holding honors at its hand and saturated with a proper 
ambition to do everything honorable and righteously that is within 
the power of each and all of them for the success of the ticket 
this fall. 

That we will win is almost absolutely certain. A splendid 
ticket has been placed before the voters. Each and every candi¬ 
date is a tried, true and able exponent of Republican principles. 
The head of it in the person of Congressman Tener is an Ameri¬ 
can of Scotch-Irish parentage who reflects credit on his ancestry 
and origin, and who, through the open door of American oppor¬ 
tunity and possibility has made his way step by step upward and 
onward until now the highest honors of the Commonwealth are 
soon to be in his grasp and the reward of his strenuous and hust¬ 
ling. career. In many traits young Mr. Tener can be compared 
to the late President William McKinley. Born of a North of 
Ireland parentage, they both were products of the common schools 
and the business life and endeavor open to all boys in the 
country. 

Tener is particularly and specially a self-made and self-educated 
citizen. Every avenue of success that lay before him he took ad¬ 
vantage of and in all positions he was called to fill he made good 
in them. He stands—as he stands physically—head and shoulders 
above his average fellow-man in quick perception and high intelli¬ 
gence, wrought out and fashioned in the crucible of this Republic’s 
moulding, and a student and master of America’s ablest and most 
hopeful aspirations. 

Such a man has the word “victor” almost stamped on his front- 
let. He is of that stock and breed that does not and cannot fail. 
Every member of the party is honored by having such a candi¬ 
date to advocate and stand for. The opposition broken into fac¬ 
tions, discordant, disunited and without any hope of success, is 
already on the run. Beaten before the battle has begun, before 
the alignment has been formed. 





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A YEAR OF REPUBLICAN HARMONY. 

From the Selin's Grove “Tribune." 

There have been times in the history of the Republican Party 
when there may* have been some reasons why a Republican might 
vote against the nominees of his party. But clearly there is no 
valid reason why any one should do so at this time. There is 
more reason why the Democrats generally should bolt both of the 
other two parties than that a Republican should do so. 

In the first place there was no opposition in the Republican 
State convention against the nomination of John K. Tener as the 
party’s standard bearer for Governor. Before the convention as¬ 
sembled there were several prominent Republicans spoken of, 
but in the convention their names were not presented, conclusively 
proving that the man who received the unanimous nomination 
was the undoubted choice of the delegates. It was not like when 
Beaver was nominated, which led to the election of Robert Pat- 
tison, or in the subsequent convention which Hastings contested 
the nomination with G. Wallace Delemater, and which resulted 
in the re-election of Governor Pattison. 

The nomination of both Grim, the Democratic nominee, and 
Berry, the Keystone nominee, is the reverse, the convention was 
torn from one end to the other with the advocates of contesting 
candidates, and to-day neither one or the other could muster the 
full party vote. Grim was the logical candidate and when Berry, 
“the man without a party," could not have his own sweet way 
in the convention, he set about to secure the nomination at the 
hands of a third party, showing that he was lost to all party honor, 
he alone had the desire to fill the office of Governor in view. From 
the present outlook there is no question but that the Republican 
candidates will be elected by large majorities. 


WHY A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS? 

From the Williamsport “Gazette and Bulletin." 

Neither Democratic organs nor Democratic authorities have 
asked the people to make the next Congress Democratic because 
of lack of activity on the part of the present Republican Congress. 
This is one argument they have not advanced, one condition that 
they have not thought it best to try to remedy. The reason is 



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found in the*work done and the measures enacted which have 
been of benefit to the whole people. 

The Sixty-first Congress was a working Congress, yet the 
Democrats ask the people to repudiate it by electing a Democratic 
body to take its place. Taking the position that every evil en¬ 
countered by this country in the past two years has been caused 
by the Republican Party, the Republican administration and a Re¬ 
publican Congress, they plead for a “restoration of confidence ,, in 
a frequently discredited Democracy on no other ground than that 
‘ things will be different if the Democrats are placed in power.” 
This is so good an argument that it may well be cited by Republi¬ 
cans. Things certainly would be different. Guided by past ex¬ 
perience, it may be said with reason that a Democratic Congress 
could accomplish nothing but the overturn of existing measures 
which have been of great benefit to the people. And that it would 
do this must naturally be inferred, for it could do nothing else 
and be “different.” 

The cry for a Democratic Congress on any grounds whatsoever 
should have no attraction for any Republican voter. To vote for 
a Democratic Congressional candidate would mean the repudiation 
of a Republican Congress which has established a record both 
in quality and quantity of legislation. It would set the seal of 
disapproval on a body of men whose work has been for the best 
interests of the country and whose usefulness should be continued. 

As a concrete example, no Republican in the Fifteenth District 
should be led away into Democratic paths because Democratic 
organs find it easy to distort facts and form misleading conclu¬ 
sions. Republicans should not forget that a vote for the Demo¬ 
cratic candidate means a desire to return to the ruinous policy 
which has invariably dominated Democratic Congresses and led 
to their downfall. They have been tried many times and found 
wanting. There should be no retrogression this year, in either 
our own district or any other. 


REYNOLDS IS ALL RIGHT. 

From the Everett “Republican.” 

The Republicans of Bedford County did not succeed in 
capturing the nomination for Governor at the State Con¬ 
vention this week, but they did the next best thing by 



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having the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor conferred 
upon their widely known and capable Representative in Con¬ 
gress, Hon. John M. Reynolds, who had been named as their 
choice for Governor. Congressman Reynolds is so well 
known and has proved his efficiency and sterling integrity 
as a public official and in business affairs so well that he 
needs no introduction and no laudation at this time, further 
than to say that his nomination is a credit to the party and 
that if elected, of which there can be no doubt, he will dis¬ 
charge his duties with fidelity and to the good of the entire 
Commonwealth. 


WORTHY SON OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. 

From the California “Sentinel.” 

The nomination of John K. Tener, of Charleroi, by the 
Republican Party in convention at Harrisburg, was a fitting 
honor to the man and an honor to Washington County. It 
has been many years since Washington County has been 
honored by having one of its illustrious sons named for 
the highest office within the gift of the people, and but 
verifies the old and trite adage that “everything conies to 
those who wait.” 

John K. Tener is in many respects a self-made man. He 
is not a politician in the strictest sense of the word. A 
few years ago he was a baseball pitcher, and later launched 
out into the business world where he showed the true talent 
of his business capabilities. He is a conservative, but yet 
has that vim which his strong, intellectual face betokens. 
As Governor of this great Commonwealth he will rule with 
firmness and courage, and his regime will be an honor to 
the State and to his record. 


AN UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENT. 

From the Erie “Times.” 

In a long editorial indorsing the candidacy of John K. 
Tener for Governor and prophesying a sweeping victory for 
him and his confreres on the Republican ticket, the Pitts- 




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burg “Gazette-Times” advances an argument which it will 
be difficult for the opposition to answer, when it says:— 

He was chosen to succeed the best type of Governor we 
have ever had—Edwin S. Stuart—with the understanding that 
he would continue the policies and admittedly excellent stand¬ 
ards of Mr. Stuart. What more can Pennsylvania desire? 
Let your mind run back over the years and when has Penn¬ 
sylvania, progressive as it is and with all its magnificent 
record of substantial achievement among the sisterhood of 
States, been so admirably served at Harrisburg as by Gov¬ 
ernor Stuart? And Mr. Stuart approves of John K. Tener 
and will advocate his election on the stump.” 

Mr. Tener’s most implacable political enemies have nothing 
to say against him personally. They are obliged to confine 
themselves to the “influences” surrounding his nomination. 

The Harrisburg “Telegraph” calls attention to the fact that 
no one is in a better position to know what those influences 
were than Governor Stuart. He was nominated by the same 
influences himself and was subjected to the same criticisms. 
But the Stuart administration was its own vindication. Ask 
the most rabid Democrat or Keystoneite of your acquaintance 
if he believes that Governor Stuart is owned or controlled by 
any man or coterie of leaders. His reply will be something 
like this:— 

“Oh, no! I have no complaint to make of Stuart. He is 
a fine Governor and an incorruptible man.” 

And Mr. Stuart approves of John K. Tener and will ad¬ 
vocate his election on the stump. 


MR. TENER’S GOOD SEND-OFF. 

From the Wellsboro “Agitator.” 

It means something when 25,000 persons gather in a man’s 
home town to pay a personal tribute to him as a candidate for 
office. That is what happened at Charleroi, the home of Hon. 
John K. Tener, who is to be the next Governor of Pennsylvania. 
And the event was the formal opening of the Republican 
State campaign. All the nominees on the State ticket were 
there and participated in the speaking. 






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Mr. Tener, having returned home the previous evening 
from a month’s vacation, was given a cordial and demonstra¬ 
tive reception by his fellow townsmen. On Saturday evening 
when he appeared on the platform he was met with a storm 
of applause, and it was some minutes before his voice could 
be heard. He spoke briefly, stating that he expected to define 
his position clearly and discuss all the issues during the cam¬ 
paign. 

There is no doubt about the way Mr. Tener is regarded at 
home. And you will note that there has not been a word 
against his personal character so far from the opposition. It 
must be that he will make a worthy successor to Governor 
Stuart, and that will be good enough. 


VIEW OF DEMOCRATIC HARMONY. 

From the Easton “Free Press.” 

Webster Grim, Democratic nominee for Governoi, charges 
William H. Berry, Keystone candidate for Governor, with 
“double dealing and hypocrisy” and declares that ’he did not 
discover the Capitol graft. Both are Democrats. The more 
scrapping the bigger will be John K. Tener’s majority on 
election day. 


THE TIME FOR HARMONY. 

From the Kittanning “Free Press.” 

It is now thirteen years since the Republican Party came 
into full control of the National Government after a brief 
period, when the Democratic Party held the reins, and it 
has been an eventful period in the history of the nation. 
Much important legislation has been written and some of 
it has been remarkably successful. The highest credit is 
reflected upon the statesmanship of the party leaders in deal¬ 
ing with the problems growing out of the war with Spain and 
the nation’s financial problems. 

We have likewise made great advances in the control of 
the great combinations of capital and the railroads are 
brought under governmental control w'ith laws that are proving 
advantageous to the public as well as to the railroads them- 






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selves, while the trusts are advised that there are both laws 
and authorities to execute them. The record, taken in its 
entirety, is one the party is and should be proud of. The 
mere enumeration of the beneficent laws that have been 
adopted during the past thirteen years presents the strongest 
possible reason for the continuation of the party control of the 
affairs of the Government. 


POLITICS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

From the Erie “Dispatch.” 

Ihe Democrats of the Keystone State, in convention as¬ 
sembled, nominated Mr. Grim for Governor; the Republicans, 
similarly assembled at Harrisburg, nominated Mr. Tener. 
The Republican convention was harmony personified. There 
was not the first hint of opposition to John K. Tener from 
any quarter. The delegates were unanimously agreed that 
Mr. Tener was the proper man for the place. The Dem¬ 
ocratic gathering was not quite so harmonious, after the 
eleventh hour withdrawal from the race of Cyrus LaRue 
Munson, but the vote was decisive enough to show beyond 
question the sentiment of the majority, and Webster Grim 
was the popular man. 

Since those conventions there has been great unrest in the 
great State of Pennsylvania. Neither the regular Republicans 
nor the regular Democrats realized that there were so many 
men within the party ranks who really wanted to be Gov¬ 
ernor and who considered themselves the chosen and anointed 
and elect of the elect. There is Mr. Berry, for instance, who 
is not pleased, and, having once tasted of the sweets of public 
office, believes that he should not be pulled so suddenly from 
the political confectionery shop. And there also is a Mr. 
Gibboney, of Philadelphia, who has unsuccessfully tried for 
about every available office in that community and now 
wishes to enlarge his field to include the entire State. 

It is all very interesting and lends variety to what other¬ 
wise might be a dull season, but what does it profit any¬ 
body? The time for announcing for public office is before 
and not after the primaries and conventions and before the 
delegates assemble in convention. The men who permit unfit 






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delegates to be elected and unfit candidates to be nominated 
have no one but themselves to blame. 

Those who leap into the limelight with injured feelings and 
a pocketful of men who ought to have been nominated after 
regular conventions have been held and others have been 
legally chosen, merit slight consideration. Selfishness and dis¬ 
appointment loom large in their protestations of crooked deals 
and other things, and they carry little weight with sensible 
people. 

The Republicans have unanimously named John K. Tener 
for Governor, and the Democrats have chosen Webster Grim. 
It is extremely doubtful whether any of these rabid independ¬ 
ent booms will amount to anything more than noise. The 
majority has spoken and the majority rules in this State 
and nation ; disappointed politicians to the contrary notwith¬ 
standing. 


THE KEYSTONE INDORSEMENTS. 

From the Huntingdon “-Globe.” 

It will not have escaped attention that wherever there is a 
Democratic candidate for Legislature or for Congress the 
Keystone Party almost always indorses that candidate and 
takes him up as its own. 

It isn’t worth while for the promoters of the Keystone or¬ 
ganization to attempt to fool the people into the belief that 
there is anything savoring of independence about it. There 
is no independence involved. The Keystone concern is 
headed by a bolting Bryan Democrat for Governor, and down 
the list Democrats find place upon it. 

It exists not to promote public interests, but the private 
interests of a few self-seekers, and to give it an excuse for 
existence it takes up Democratic candidates wherever found. 


WILL THE TICKET LAST? 

From the Kensington “Keystone.” 

It is not the job of the Republican organization in Penn¬ 
sylvania to make trouble for these “holier than thou” place 
hunters. They have troubles enough of their own. They 




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are torn and twisted by factions and ambitions and there is 
yet some doubt as to whether their ticket will go through 
the campaign as at present constituted. The head of the 
third ticket, W. H. Berry, has arbitrarily insisted upon forc¬ 
ing his isms and theories into the fight greatly to the disgust 
of D. Clarence Gibboney, their candidate for Lieutenant-Gov¬ 
ernor. Mr. Berry insists upon climbing into the Governor’s 
chair over the wreckage of the Democratic organization, 
which he was unable to control, and Gibboney wants to get 
into office by the dark lantern route. Between them they are 
certain only to wreck the Democratic Party. 


WHY REPUBLICANS SHOULD WIN. 

From the Stroudsburg “Jeffersonian.” 

Although there seems little need of discussing the matter, 
a reminder that the Republican State ticket, now before the 
people of Pennsylvania, will win is a foregone conclusion 
that needs little emphasis. Why? 

Because the greatest progress of the State has been made 
under Republican administration, notwithstanding all other 
factors in the case. 

Governor Stuart has given the State one of the best ad¬ 
ministrations the State has ever had. 

The nominees on the Republican ticket and now before the 
people in this campaign are Republicans, and always have 
been Republicans, never taking up with side shows or party 
kickers. 

John K. Tener, nominee on the Republican ticket, has 
never been an office seeker, he is a business man in the west¬ 
ern part of the State, and until 1907 refused to enter politics. 
In that year he was nominated for Congress in his own 
district, carrying the district by a majority of 10,000. While 
in Congress he was appointed on the Committee of Rivers and 
Harbors; in this position he has been successful and a credit 
to himself and his constituents. 

Of the remaining candidates on the ticket it is hardly nec¬ 
essary to go into detail, suffice to say that every man on the 
ticket has been a staunch Republican and is fit for the position 
for which he has been nominated. 





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A HELPLESS DEMOCRACY. 

From the Brookville “Republican.” 

Should the Democratic Party convince the Republican 
voters, who were in the majority at the last Congressional 
election, that the safety of this country lies in returning a 
Democratic majority, how can it hope to fulfil its implied 
promise of achievement? With a Republican President and 
a Republican Senate, the efforts of a Democratic House, how¬ 
ever able, would come to naught. The Democracy would 
merely be confronted with the charge that it had made prom¬ 
ises that it could not keep. 


TENER AS STUART’S SUCCESSOR. 

From the Waynesboro “Record.” 

In the big body of men assembled in Harrisburg there 
was none who went there pledged to any one candidate. 
There was a review of the situation, a canvassing of the 
merits of the men and a general harmonizing of opinion in 
favor of Congressman Tener. 

No Governor of Pennsylvania has won more cordial ap¬ 
probation from the people than Governor Stuart and there 
is a similarity of disposition and accomplishment between 
him and the Republican candidate. Both are undemonstrative, 
but exceedingly determined; both have won eminence by the 
same qualities of ability and faithfulness to duty. There is 
good reason to believe there may be a similarity in their ad¬ 
ministrations. 


PARTY OF HARMONY AND ENTHUSIASM. 

From the Allentown “Chronicle and News.” 

The old rule that “a good thing takes time,” does not apply 
to the Republican ticket that was nominated at Harrisburg. 
The convention was in session only an hour and a half, but 
did its work well, notwithstanding the record breaking brevity 
of the meeting. The session was harmonious and enthusiastic 
and all Republicans seem to be pleased with the ticket and 
the platform. 




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In fact, there is no good reason why anyone should be 
dissatisfied. There was no real contest for the Gubernatorial 
honor, or any other place on the ticket, all the nominations 
going by common consent to the men who will be the Re¬ 
publican standard bearers in the coming campaign. It was 
in many ways a remarkable convention, not only as far as 
the short time it took to complete its work is concerned, but 
in the harmonious spirit that was manifested all along the 
line and the enthusiastic manner in which the ticket was 
received. 

John K. Tener, of Washington County, the candidate for 
Governor, is known among his friends as “Happy John” and 
“Popular John,” and it goes without saying that he is a 
man of strong personality and tremendous popularity among 
his neighbors. Retiring from the baseball diamond twenty 
years ago, where he won international fame as the star twirler 
of the Chicago Nationals, he came back to Pennsylvania 
and is now at the head of a prosperous banking institution, 
in which capacity he has shown signal ability and proved 
himself to be a man of marked integrity and splendid business 
attainments. Elected to Congress two years ago, his record 
in the House has been one of devotion to the interests of 
the people of Pennsylvania and has attracted wide attention, 
which is unusual in the case of a Congressman serving his 
first term. 

Both in his private and public life Mr. Tener has demon¬ 
strated his fitness for the Gubernatorial office, the highest 
in the gift of the people of this Commonwealth, and that 
his candidacy will increase in popularity and strength the 
more he comes in contact with the voters is our belief, and 
the “Chronicle” predicts his election by one of the largest 
majorities ever given a Gubernatorial nominee in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

Congressman John M. Reynolds, of Bedford, the nominee 
for Lieutenant-Governor, is also a man of fine parts and bril¬ 
liant attainments and is a fit running mate for so popular a 
man as Tener. 

Henry Houck, of Lebanon, renominated for Secretary of 
Internal Affairs, is known by reputation if not personally to 





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nearly every man, woman and child in the State, especially 
those identified with the cause of education, and it is true, 
as has been said of him, that he is “the apostle of sunshine. 
This is the gospel that he has preached for years and is still 
preaching and has made him the idol 'of the great army of 
school teachers and the legion of their pupils in this State. As a 
campaigner he is in a class by himself, and if Uncle Henry 
doesn’t lead the ticket in votes, he will come very near it. 

During his brief incumbency of the office of State Treas¬ 
urer, Charles F. Wright, of Susquehanna, who is to run for 
a full term, has displayed unusual judgment and executive 
ability and his election will insure a business-like administra¬ 
tion in the office and absolute honesty in the management of 
the financial affairs of the State. 

The platform adopted by the convention is one that can 
be indorsed by every good Republican. It stands pat on 
the tariff and the policies of President Taft, as opposed to 
Democratic threats to destroy every doctrine that has made 
this nation great and prosperous, and upon State issues it 
leaves nothing to be desired. 


JOHN K. TENER FOR GOVERNOR. 

From the Washington “Record.” 

The nomination of John K. Tener, the popular Representa¬ 
tive of the Washington-Beaver-Lawrence District, by the 
State Republican convention for Governor, is one, indeed, 
which is well calculated to inspire content in all parts of the 
Commonwealth. If there is any personal disqualification in 
Mr. Tener for the high responsibility which is now about 
to devolve upon him, the public knows nothing about it. He 
not only comes from a family which is prominent and highly 
respected, but his own character and reputation are without 
reproach. His success in business is sufficient witness to hi« 
general capacity for executive trust, and his eminently satis¬ 
factory discharge of his duties during his first term in Con¬ 
gress shows that he has the requisite knowledge of affairs. 

In short, everything that the public has seen of him com 
firms the belief that he has the ability to give the people 
of Pennsylvania capable service in the highest office in the 



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Commonwealth. And that he will bring not only brains, 
but conscience to the task is an assumption having ample 
warrant in all his relations, both of a business and a personal 
character in the past. 

The ticket nominated at Harrisburg with John K. Tener 
as the chief standard bearer, is one that will be satisfac¬ 
tory to the rank and file of the party and certain of the 
people’s ratification at the polls in November. 


STANDARD BEARERS ABLE MEN. 

From the Milton “Miltonian/ 7 
The standard bearers of the party are able men, who will 
be magnificently and triumphantly elected in November. 
After all is it not safe to trust an organization with naming 
a State ticket that four years ago gave to the people such 
men as Edwin S. Stuart and Robert S. Murphy? It is a 
question if ever the affairs of a great Commonwealth were 
in better or safer hands than Pennsylvania is at this time. 
The same men are at the helm to-day. Some of us might 
differ in our opinions as to who should be named for this 
office or that one, but when all are put together and the ticket 
analyzed from whatever point of view you care to take, it 
looks good to us, and Pennsylvania will say so in her usual 
emphatic and decisive manner when election rolls around. 
We are for the ticket. 


A PARTY WITHOUT PRINCIPLES. 

From the Carlisle “Volunteer.” 

The Republicans of Pennsylvania are going about their 
business, letting the future take care of itself, figuratively 
speaking, being assured that at the election in November 
the people of the State will again indorse the party which 
has done so much for Pennsylvania and saved it from Dem¬ 
ocratic misrule. But things are different in the Democratic 
camp. The efforts being put forth by the various factions of 
the Democratic Party to prove each other traitors, deceivers 
and miscreants would be amusing if it were not pitiful, for 









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it is too bad that the Democratic Party in this State is in 
such a disorganized condition. 

Glancing over the editorial columns of the Democratic news¬ 
papers we find Grim denouncing Berry as an ingrate and 
traitor; Berry declaring that Grim is a machine Democrat, and 
Grim and Berry being praised or condemned indiscriminately 
by the newspapers favoring or opposing one or both of them. 
The attempt to bind the bonds of Bryanism still tighter on 
the Democratic Party in this State is a desperate one and 
one which is likely to leave the poor old party in worse con¬ 
dition than ever before. All of which goes to prove that a 
party without principles cannot hope to survive. 

One of the many weak spots in the candidacy of Berry for 
Governor is the fact that it is well known he would have 
been very well satisfied with conditions if the Democratic 
convention had nominated him instead of Grim. After Grim’s 
nomination he congratulated Grim on the victory and prom¬ 
ised his support. And his manager, Bonniwell, moved to 
make the nomination of Grim unanimous. How much faith 
can be put in men whose political record contains such a 
blotch. There can be no depth to their convictions, and they 
are as unstable as water. 


! 


UNITED STATES SENATOR 



BOIES PENROSE 



PENNSYLVANIA’S SENIOR SENATOR. 


A Republican campaign text book would not be complete with¬ 
out brief biographical sketches of the two United States Senators 
from Pennsylvania. For many years both have been identified 
with the active work of the Republican Party in this State. It 
may not be amiss, therefore, to present briefly some of the 
principal events in their lives. 

Of the thirty-six men Pennsylvania has sent to the United 
States Senate, only two have been elected for three full 
terms in that body. Simon Cameron and Mathew Stanley 
Quay were elected to the Senate three times, but their terms 
were broken. Boies Penrose is one of the two men who have 
been honored by the Keystone State in the manner indicated. 
With service to the Senate he has broadened and developed 
until he has become one of the leaders of that body. 

Boies Penrose is 49 years old and a native of Philadelphia. 
He is the eldest son of the late R. A. F. Penrose, M. D., LL. D., 
a professor in the medical department of the University of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and a grandson of the Hon. Charles B. Penrose, who 
was one of the best known and highly esteemed lawyers of the 
State, Speaker for the State Senate for several terms, and Soli¬ 
citor of the United States Treasury under President William 
Henry Harrison and John Tyler. His great-grandfather was 
Clement Biddle Penrose, who was educated in France and 
Switzerland, and who, on his return to Philadelphia, was ap¬ 
pointed by Thomas Jefferson, then President of the United 
States, one of the three commissioners to take charge of the 
recently acquired Territory of Louisiana. 

AS A STUDENT, LAWYER AND AUTHOR. 

Boies Penrose was educated by private tutors at home until, 
at the age of 16 , he entered Harvard College, from which insti- 

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tution he graduated with high honors in 1881. He was one of 
the graduates selected to deliver an oration at the commence¬ 
ment. His subject was “Martin VanBuren as a Politician.” He 
studied law in the offices of Wayne MacVeagh and George 
Tucker Bispham, was admitted to the Bar of Philadelphia in 
1883, and formed a partnership, with S. Davis Page and Edward 
P. Allinson, under the firm of Page, Allinson & Penrose. He is 
the author, in connection with his law partner, Edward P. Allin¬ 
son, of a history of the city government of Philadelphia, a volume 
entitled “Philadelphia, 1681-1887,” written at the request of the 
Johns Hopkins University for the “University Students in His¬ 
torical and Political Science,” and a “History of Ground Rents 
in Philadelphia.” Pie was elected in 1884 to represent the Eighth 
Legislative District in the House at Harrisburg, and remained a 
member of that body until 1886, when he was elected a State 
Senator from the Sixth Senatorial District. He was re-elected 
in 1890 and again in 1894. In the sessions of 1889 and 1901 he 
served as president pro tem. of the Senate. In each branch of 
the Legislature he was a recognized leader, a skillful debater, a 
fluent speaker, and always powerful in argument. He was 
elected to the United States Senate as the successor of J. Don¬ 
ald Cameron for the term beginning March 4, 1897, and six 
years later was re-elected. In 1909 he was elected for a third 
term practically without opposition. 

It was during the extra session of the Sixty-first Congress 
that Senator Penrose attained a position in the Senate where he 
could be of largest usefulness to the people of Pennsylvania. 
President Taft had called Congress together to revise the tariff 
schedules, as contemplated by a declaration of the Republican 
platform upon which Mr. Taft had been elected President. The 
Payne tariff law was the result. As prepared and reported to 
the House by the Ways and Means Committee the Payne bill 
contained tariff reductions which would have proven ruinous to 
the interests of the labor and capital of this State. These re¬ 
ductions from the rates of the Dingley law ranged from ten to 
fifty per cent, and they included nearly every manufactured 
article of which Pennsylvania is a large producer. With these 
destructive rates the House passed the bill. When It reached 
the Senate it was referred to the Committee on Finance. 





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PREVENTS DESTRUCTIVE TARIFF REDUCTIONS. 

For the first time within this generation, Pennsylvania had 
representation on that committee. As a member of it Senator 
Penrose was in a position to render valuable service for this 
State. He knew what sort of tariff revision the labor and capital 
of Pennsylvania demanded, and he firmly insisted that the sweep¬ 
ing reductions adopted by the House be eliminated. When the 
bill passed the Senate it provided duties ‘adequate for the pro¬ 
tection of Pennsylvania’s industries. As a member of the Con¬ 
ference Committee, which finally considered the Payne bill, 
Senator Penrose successfully defended the increases adopted 
by the Senate. 

With reference to Senator Penrose’s work when the Payne 
bill was before Congress, the Chester Times made this editorial 
comment: 

“In the successful termination of the issues so vitally con¬ 
cerning Pennsylvania in the consideration of a new tariff bill, 
United States Senator Boies Penrose has been a commanding 
influence. Senator Penrose has rendered the people of his 
State an unequaled service in the way he handled Pennsylvania’s 
interests in the tedious fight over the bill. His long and dis¬ 
tinguished service in the Senate, having placed him in a strong 
position on the committees in direct charge of the tariff bill, 
he has remained at his post continually and has given the mani¬ 
fold subject affecting Pennsylvania his closest attention, with 
the result that our State has been protected in the many and 
various lines in which its interests are affected by the new 
legislation. 

“The amount of work which Senator Penrose has accom¬ 
plished is nothing short of marvelous, and it is hard to com¬ 
prehend by those'unfamiliar with the thousand and one pro¬ 
visions in the tariff which have to be understood and carefully 
investigated in their bearing upon his constituency. He has 
successfully met the countless attacks from many sources upon 
the items in which Pennsylvania is concerned, and the finished 
tariff bill in its relation to this State is a monument to his intel¬ 
ligence, energy and statesmanship. 

“It is a great thing to have had a big man on guard in 
Washington who understands the situation and has the ability 


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and influence to so satisfactorily work it out. Senator Penrose’s 
service to Pennsylvania in this crisis has rarely, if ever, been 
equaled in the history of the State.” 

WORK IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. 

As the chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and 
Post Roads Senator Penrose directs the deliberations of the 
great business committee of the Senate, which, during the last 
session of Congress, constructed a measure appropriating $ 242 ,- 
000,000 for the maintenance of the postal service. He is a 
member of the Committee on Commerce, which passes upon 
expenditures for the development of the waterways of the 
country, and of the Committee on Naval Affairs, which an¬ 
nually prepares legislation appropriating millions that are ex¬ 
pended in battleship construction by Pennsylvania industries. 
He is also a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, 
the Committee on Imigration, and the Committee on Public 
Expenditures. No other Senator has more important com¬ 
mittee assignments. 

Senator Penrose represents Pennsylvania on the Republican 
National Committee. As member of the Executive Committee 
of that body, in the campaign of 1908, which ended in the elec¬ 
tion of Judge Taft, he rendered conspicuous service at the 
headquarters of the National Committee in New York, for 
which he was warmly commended. 






UNITED STATES SENATOR 



GEORGE T. OLIVER 


PENNSYLVANIA’S JUNIOR SENATOR 


Though it is but a year and a half since he took his seat, 
George T. Oliver, junior United States Senator from Penn¬ 
sylvania, has already won an honored position in the dis¬ 
tinguished body of which he was elected a member by the 
legislature of this State. Not long after Mr. Oliver went 
to Washington, in the spring of last year, the Payne tariff 
bill came from the House of Representatives to the Senate. 
This gave the new Senator his opportunity. His experience 
as a manufacturer and in industrial operations had provided 
him with an unusual equipment for intelligent discussion of 
various customs schedules affecting Pennsylvania industries, 
and at several critical stages he was able to present enlight¬ 
ening information with accuracy and definiteness which were 
convincing even to avowedly partisan opposition. 

EFFECTIVE IN TARIFF DEBATE. 

It is the testimony of veteran correspondents at Washington, 
as well as of members of long service in Congressional life, 
that the part Mr. Oliver took in the tariff debate, directed, 
as was natural, to the protection of Pennsylvania products 
and Pennsylvania labor—at a time when Pennsylvania man¬ 
ufacturers were the especial mark of low tariff revisionists— 
vindicated the judgment of the Republican Assemblymen 
of his State in selecting him for the Senate. In the vernacular 
of the day, it may be said without fear of challenge that 
Senator Oliver “made good” from the start. He has been 
assiduous in attendance upon sessions of the Senate, has 
fulfilled his committee duties with scrupulous care and has 
been diligent and prompt in responding to every appeal of 
a proper character from his constituents throughout the State. 
Meantime he has enjoyed the confidence of his colleagues of 
the Senate and has been accounted a faithful friend of Presi¬ 
dent Taft and a loyal supporter of his policies. 

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ACTIVE IN COMMITTEE WORK. 

Senator Oliver is chairman of the Committee on Trans¬ 
portation Routes to the Seaboard and a member of the Com¬ 
mittees on Claims, Indian Depredations, Industrial Exposi¬ 
tions, Manufactures, Private Land Claims, Railroads and the 
University of the United States. He is also chairman of the 
Joint Committee of Congress on the Fiftieth Anniversary of 
the Battle of Gettysburg, which is to be observed in 1913 and 
in which the Civil War veterans of Pennsylvania are espec¬ 
ially interested. 

Mr. Oliver was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, January 
26, 1848, while his parens were visiting in that country, they 
at the time being residents of Allegheny, Pa. He was 
educated in the public schools of Allegheny, at Pleasant Hill 
Academy, West Middletown, Pa., and at Bethany College, 
West Virginia, where he was graduated in 1868. 

ADMITTED TO THE BAR. 

Mr. Oliver studied law and was admitted to the bar of 
Allegheny County, in 1871. After an active practice of ten 
years he retired in 1881 and engaged in iron and steel manu¬ 
facturing. He was first vice-president and afterward presi¬ 
dent of the Oliver Wire Company until that company dis¬ 
posed of its plants in 1899. In 1889 he became president 
of the Hainsworth Steel Company and retained that position 
until its merger in 1897 with the Oliver & Snyder Steel 
Company, of which he was president until he disposed of 
his interest in the concern in 1901. 

A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER. 

In the summer of 1900 he purchased “The Pittsburgh 
Gazette,” the oldest newspaper published west of the Alle¬ 
ghenies, and later in the same year acquired the controlling 
interest in the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph,” the oldest 
afternoon paper in Pittsburg. In 1906 “The Pittsburg 
Gazette” and “The Pittsburg Times” were merged and are 
now published under the name of “The Gazette-Times.” He 
is still the principal owner of both papers. He is also presi¬ 
dent of the Youngstown Car Manufacturing Company, at 


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Youngstown, Ohio, and is connected as a director with sev¬ 
eral financial and industrial corporations in Pittsburg. 

LOYAL PARTY SUPPORTER. 

Mr. Oliver has always been an earnest and active Repub¬ 
lican, but never held public office until last year except that 
of president of the Central Board of Education in Pittsburg, 
which position he occupied from 1881 to 1884, when he re¬ 
signed. He was presidential elector in 1884 and was delegate 
to the Republican National Convention in 1904. He was 
married to Miss Mary Kountze, of Omaha, Neb., and has six 
children living, his two sons, George S. and Augustus K., 
being actively engaged in the management of his newspapers. 






HIGH PRICES NOT DUE TO TARIFF 


PRESIDENT TAFT ON THE PAYNE LAW.—CON¬ 
VINCING REPORT OF LODGE INVES¬ 
TIGATING COMMITTEE. 


In an address delivered at Winona, Minnesota, September 
17, 1909, President William H. Taft entered into an extended dis¬ 
cussion of the tariff revision provided by the Payne tariff act. 
Mr. Taft also replied to those critics of that act who contend 
that the tariff is the cause of the increased cost of living in this 
country. In course of his remarks the President said: 

ACHIEVEMENT OF REPUBLICAN STATESMANSHIP. 

“On the whole, however, I am bound to say that I think the 
Payne tariff bill is the best tariff bill that the Republican party 
ever passed; that in it the party has conceded the necessity for 
following the changed conditions and reducing tariff rates ac¬ 
cordingly. This is a substantial achievement in the direction of 
lower tariffs and downward revision, and it ought to be accepted 
as such. Critics of the bill utterly ignore the very tremendous 
cuts that have been made in the iron schedule, which heretofore 
has been subject to criticism in all tariff bills. From iron ore, 
which was cut 75 per cent., to all the other items as low as 
20 per cent., with an average of something like 40 or 50 per 
cent., that schedule has been reduced so that the danger of in¬ 
creasing prices through a monopoly of the business is very much 
lessened, and that was the chief purpose of revising the tariff 
downward under Republican protective principles. The severe 
critics of the bill pass this reduction in the metal schedule with 
a sneer, and say that the cut did not hurt the iron interests of 
the country. Well, of course it did not hurt them. It was not 

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expected to hurt them. It was expected only to reduce excessive 
rates, so that business should still be conducted at a profit, and the 
very character of the criticism is an indication of the general in¬ 
justice of the attitude of those who make it, in assuming that it 
was the promise of the Republican party to hurt the industries 
of the country by the reductions which they were to make in the 
tariff, whereas it expressly indicated as plainly as possible in the 
platform that all of the industries were to be protected against 
injury by foreign competition, and the promise only went to 
the reduction of excessive rates beyond what was necessary to 
protect them. 

“The high cost of living, of which 50 per cent, is consumed 
in food, 25 per cent, in clothing, and 25 per cent, in rent and fuel, 
has not been produced by the tariff, because the tariff has re¬ 
mained the same while the increases have gone on. It is due 
to the change of conditions the world over. Living has increased 
everywhere in cost—in countries where there is free trade and 
in countries where there is protection—and that increase has been 
chiefly seen in the cost of food products. In other words, we 
have had to pay more for the products of the farmer, for meat, 
for grain, for everything that enters into food. Now, certainly 
no one will contend that protection has increased the cost of food 
in this country, when the fact is that we have been the greatest 
exporters of food products in the world. It is only that the 
demand has increased beyond the supply, that farm lands have not 
been opened as rapidly as the population and the demand has 
increased. I am not saying that the tariff does not increase prices 
in clothing and in building and in other items that enter into the 
necessities of life, but what I wish to emphasize is that the recent 
increases in the cost of living in this country have not been due to 
the tariff. We have a much higher standard of living in this 
country than they have abroad, and this has been made possible 
by higher income for the workingman, the farmer, and all classes. 
Higher wages have been made possible by the encouragement of 
diversified industries, built up and fostered by the tariff.” 

EXHAUSTIVE CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY. 

On February 10 , 1910 , the United States Senate adopted a 
resolution creating a committee to be known as “The Select 



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Committee on Wages and Prices of Commodities.” By the 
terms of the resolution this body was instructed to make an 
exhaustive investigation into the cost of living and any increase 
in the same since 1900 ; to ascertain whether the prices of the 
necessities of life which enter into the general use and consump¬ 
tion of the people, have been increased since the year 1900 ; and 
if so, to ascertain the cause or causes which have influenced said 
increase. The committee, which was appointed by the Vice 
President, consisted of these senators: Henry Cabot Lodge, of 
Massachusetts, chairman; Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hamp¬ 
shire; P. J. McCumber, of North Dakota; Reed Smoot, of Utah; 
C. I. Crawford, of South Dakota; James P. Clarke, of Arkansas; 
Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, and Ellison D. Smith, of South 
Carolina. 

The committee’s investigation was as thorough as any other 
investigation ever undertaken by a congressional committee. It 
was intended to be a non-partisan body, whose only object was 
to disclose the facts. It investigated every phase of the problem 
of advancing prices. It did not limit its inquiries regarding trade 
and price conditions to the United States, but extended its in¬ 
vestigation to the situation in foreign countries. In a preliminary 
report, recently made public, Mr. Lodge, representing the ma¬ 
jority, submitted facts which sustain the contention of the Presi¬ 
dent that the tariff is NOT the cause of higher prices. In this 
report the committee says: 

THE TARIFF AND HIGH PRICES. 

The tariff seems to have been no material factor in causing 
the advance in prices during the past decade. The greatest 
advances have been made in commodities upon which the tariff 
has little or no effect, and the absolute removal of the tariff on 
many of these commodities could not have afforded relief at the 
present time, for the reason that prices of these commodities, 
with a few exceptions, were as high or higher in other countries 
than in the United States. 

The advance in prices during the past ten years appears to 
have no relation to tariff legislation. Beginning with January, 
1900 , wholesale prices in general declined slightly, and the decline 


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continued through # July, 1901. Beginning with August, 1901, 
prices advanced very slowly through March, 1903, and then re¬ 
mained steady through May, 1905. Beginning with June, 1905, 
there was a marked increase through October, 1907. Beginning 
with November, 1907, prices began to decline and the decline 
continued through August, 1908. Beginning with September, 
1908, prices steadily advanced until the highest point during the 
ten years was reached in March, 1910. 

The advance in 1909 as compared with 1900, by groups of 
articles, was as follows: 

PER CENT. 


Products of the forest advanced. 40.3 

Products of the farm, crude, advanced. 36.1 

Products of the farm, manufactured, advanced.. 24.2 

Products of mines and wells advanced. 13.5 

Products of manufactures advanced. 5.7 

Products of the fisheries advanced. 5.1 

Imported products declined. 1.7 


The groups of articles which have shown the greatest ad- ' 
vance—the products of the forests and the products of the 
farm—are those for which there has been practically no change 
in tariff during the past ten years. Neither have there been any 
changes during the past twenty years which could in any way 
account for the increase in price. The tariff acts of 1894, 1897, 
and 1909 have made no changes which to any appreciable degree 
measure the changes in prices which have taken place. 

The tariff act of 1909 made no marked changes in “farm 
products and foodstuffs/’ the articles grouped by the tariff acts 
under Schedule G, “agricultural products and provisions,” and 
Schedule E, “sugar, molasses, and manufactures of.” 

Where alterations were made in rates they were chiefly in the 
direction of reductions. Yet such changes as have been made 
in the tariff in these schedules have apparently had no effect on 
prices, as almost without a single exception the prices have 
advanced materially since the passage of the act without any 
distinction as to whether the tariff was increased or decreased. 
The farm products and articles of food changed by the tariff of 
1909 are shown in the lists which follow. The first list shows 
the increases and the second the decreases. 











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Tariff of 1909 , Schedules G and E. 


Increases. 



Equivalent ad valorem duty.* 
Act of 1897. Act of 1909. 

Increase. 

Buckwheat flour. 

Per cent. 

20.00 

Per cent. 

25.00 

Per cent. 

25.00 

Hops. 

37.94 

50.59 

33.33 

Split peas. 

25.81 

36.44 

41.17 

Caviare, in packages of 100 

pounds or over. 

.85 

30.00 

3,529.41 

Figs. 

41.85 

52.31 

25.00 

Dates. 

14.32 

28.64 

100.00 

Grapes, in barrels or other 

packages. 

16.57 

20.72 

25.00 

Lemons. 

36.18 

54.27 

50.00 

Pineapples: 

In barrels or other pkgs... 

19.37 

22.14 

14.28 

In bulk. 

23.44 

26.79 

14.29 

Chicory root: 

Raw, dried or undried, but 

unground. 

64.25 

96.37 

50.00 

Burnt or roasted, ground 

or granulated, etc. 

60.08 

72.10 

20.00 

Decreases. 

Equivalent ad valorem duty.* 
Act of 1897. Act of 1909. 

Per cent Per cent 

Corn meal. 18.34 17.61 

Decrease. 
Per cent. 

4.00 

Casein. 

20.00 

Free. 

100.00 

Cabbages . 

44.58 

29.81 

33.33 

Peas, dried. 

16.75 

13.96 

16.67 

Pears, green, in bulk, or in bar¬ 
rels, sacks, or in similar 

packages . 

20.61 

12.93 

37.50 

Celery seed... 

30.00 

14.68 

51.07 

Anchovies, sardines, etc., in 
packages other than bottles, 

jars, tin boxes, or cans. 

40.00 

30.00 

25.00 

Herring. 

10.68 

7.12 

33.33 

Bacon and hams. 

23.28 

18.63 

20.00 

Beef. 

18.19 

13.64 

25.00 

Veal . 

16.55 

12.41 

25.00 

Mutton. 

23.51 

17.63 

25.00 

























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Pork . 

Equivalent ad valorem duty.* 
Act of 1897. Act of 1909. 

Per cent. Per cent. 

Decrease. 
Per cent. 

13.61 

10.20 

25.00 

Venison. 

14.37 

10.77 

25.00 

Lard. 

20.29 

15.22 

25.00 

Tallow. 

10.63 

7.08 

33.33 

Salt, in bags, etc. 

36.14 

33.13 

8:33 

Salt, in bulk. 

90.24 

78.96 

12.50 

Starch, other than potato. 

45.95 

30.63 

33.33 

Dextrine, burnt starch, gum 

substitute, or British gum. . . 

67.74 

50.80 

25.00 

Oleo-stearine. 

20.00 

Free. 

100.00 

Cane sugar above 16 and all 
sugar that has gone through 

a process of refining. 

72.57 

70.70 

2.56 

Saccharine. 

216.71 

89.57 

58.66 


EVIDENCE IS CONCLUSIVE. 

That the tariff is not the cause of the present advance is 
conclusively shown by the fact that the greatest advance has been 
made in commodities which are usually produced in sufficient 
quantities to furnish a large surplus to other countries. 

The principal farm grains—barley, corn, oats, rye, and 
wheat—made an average advance in price in 1909, compared with 
1900, of 69.7 per cent. They are usually exported in large 
quantities, yet while the exports were materially reduced in 1909, 
other countries absorbed our surplus even at the advanced prices, 
and the exports during 1909 amounted to over $80,000,000 with 
additional exports of over $50,000,000 worth of wheat flour and 
corn meal. 

The price level of the live-stock group, consisting of cattle, 
hogs, and sheep in 1909, was 26.1 per cent, above the price level 
of 1900. This group also furnished a surplus for export and at 
the advanced prices the exports amounted to approximately 
$ 20 , 000 , 000 . 

This amount exported is much less than for previous years, 

but the fact that exports of products of the farm and of the 

forests continue in such large quantities indicates that the price 

movement is due not to the tariff, but to a world-wide movement 

upward in prices of such commodities. 

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* By “equivalent ad valorem duty” is meant the per cent, which the amount of duty collected 
during the year was of the value of the go ds imported during the year. 















TRIBUTE TO THE PRESIDENT. 


PENNSYLVANIAN IN CONGRESS EMPHASIZES SUC¬ 
CESS OF THE TAFT ADMINISTRATION. 


On the closing day of the recent session of Congress, Mr. 
Olmsted, of Pennsylvania, addressing the House, said: 

“About some very worthy, distinguished, and eminently suc¬ 
cessful officials there is ever an air of anticipation and there 
is inevitable publicity and sensation both before and after the 
fact. Ofttimes this serves a very useful purpose. Other offi¬ 
cials are quiet and undemonstrative, but get there just the same. 
The difference is largely one of temperament and of habit. Presi¬ 
dent Taft was for many years a judge. He acquired, and there 
still rests upon him, the judicial habit of calm deliberation 
and of not saying much in advance about what he is going to 
do. He has not endeavored to appeal to the sensational side of 
our natures, but he has been going steadily forward in the* course 
which he had mapped out. 

“If it has been marked by judicial calmness and deliberation 
of judgment, it has also been marked by great determination 
and by great firmness of execution. The people are just begin¬ 
ning to discover how wonderfully successful his administration 
has been and is, and that, for an administration so young, it is 
unprecedentedly rich in accomplishment. The Republicans of 
Pennsylvania, in their convention on Wednesday of this week, 
sounded a clear note, which has awakened pleasing echoes 
throughout the United States. This is an extract from their 
platform: 

“ ‘We heartily indorse and commend the administration of President 
William H. Taft, which, less than sixteen months old, is unique in its 
record of accomplishment. He has, in his own way, carried forward 
and developed the policies of Williaqi McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, 
while enforcing his own and those in favor of which the party has in 

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National platform declared. With unwearing patience and gentleness 
of manner, but with great firmness of purpose and unyielding determina¬ 
tion, he will, by the time the gavel falls at the close of the present 
session of Congress, have succeeded in securing the enactment into 
law of more important recommendations than any other President has 
ever secured within so brief a time after his inauguration. Among 
this legislation may be mentioned the revision of the tariff; the bill 
for the more complete regulation and control of railroads; the estab¬ 
lishment of postal savings banks; the creation of a Bureau of Mines; 
the punishment of the white slave traffic; the creation of a tariff board; 
the abolition of the immunity bath; the establishment of business 
methods in various government departments; legislation for the con¬ 
servation of our National resources; the creation of a Commerce 
Court; providing for the investigation of railway accidents and monthly 
reports of the same; important legislation amending and extending the 
laws requiring the use of safety appliances for common carriers; the 
passage through the House of a bill providing a complete constitution 
for the government of Porto Rico, in pursuance of his special message, 
and conferring citizenship according to the promise of the party plat¬ 
form ; and the addition of two stars to the flag. 

“ ‘We also call especial attention to his prompt and effective inter¬ 

vention to prevent the arbitrary increase of railway rates; his faithful 
and impartial enforcement of the anti-trust laws; his enforcement of 
the law against illegal dealing in stocks through the instrumentality of 
what are commonly termed “bucket shops”; the conviction of the per¬ 
petrators of the so-called sugar frauds upon the Government; and 
the indictment of those engaged in unlawfully cornering and artificially 
advancing the price of cotton and necessarily of cotton goods, which enter 
to so large an extent into the expenses of every American family.’ 

“To the list of accomplished legislation will be 
added the concurrent, resolution passed finally, providing 
for a commision to investigate the very important matter of 
employer’s liability and workman’s compensation, and this bill 
for publicity of campaign contributions. The great volume of 
exceedingly important and beneficial legislation that stands to 
the credit of this Congress, as well as of the President, is of 
itself sufficient to commend both to the indorsement and praise 
of the American people; but the success of President Taft’s 
administration extends also into other fields.” 


Index 

Page 

President Taft’s Letter . 4 

The Campaign and its Issues. 19 

John Kinley Tener . 24 

John Merriman Reynolds . 29 

Henry Houck . 35 

Charles Frederick Wright . 38 

Harmony in State Convention. 40 

Candidates Accept Nomination.....*.. 46 

Mr. Tener Outlines His Policies. 52 

John M. Reynolds on the Issues. 55 

Address of Henry Houck. 61 

Charles F. Wright’s Acceptance. 63 

Pennsylvania Free From Debt.... . 65 

The Burden of State Taxation. 70 

Republican Party Labor’s Friend. 78 

The Farmer and Politics. 91 

Safeguards Health of People. 99 

Schools for Soldiers’ Orphans.. 103 

State Aid in Road Construction. 105 

Work of Railroad Commission... 107 

Protection of the Forests. 108 

The Party and Education. 111 

Conservation in Pennsylvania. 120 

A Study of John Kinley Tener. 124 

Keystone State in Congress. 130 

Facts for the Man Who Toils. 133 

Principles of the Party. 138 

Tener and Union Labor. 157 

Comment of the State Press. 160 

Pennsylvania’s Senior Senator . 208 

Pennsylvania’s Junior Senator . 213 

High Prices Not Due to Tariff. 216 

Tribute to the President. 222 

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